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Re:Google Life Sciences Exodus by ghaff on Monday March 28, 2016 @02:35PM (#11376265)
>in the era where results-oriented project managers run the show, magical places like Bell labs are a thing of the past.

To be fair, also in an era when Ma Bell doesn't have a virtual monopoly over telecommunications in the United States--may have worked for the time but really wasn't such a wonderful thing. Bell Labs did do a lot of wonderful things but they resulted in part from the fact that they were funded by an organization which was essentially insulated from market competition.

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Re:Google Life Sciences Exodus by crispyambulance on Monday March 28, 2016 @03:18PM (#11376602)
True, just saying that Bell Labs earned its place in history during a time with very different constraints and that such an environment would be impossible or at least very difficult to re-create today.
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