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Xerox PARC may never have produced the modern computer if there had been an explicit profit goal. The "spectacular failure" here was not in the goal of the lab -- the problem was how Xerox management dealt with its results.

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Xerox PARC may never have produced the modern computer if there had been an explicit profit goal.

Perhaps, perhaps not.

The "spectacular failure" here was not in the goal of the lab -- the problem was how Xerox management dealt with its results.

Yes, I agree 100%.