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Re:Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused by peterwwillis on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:30PM (#16227334)
> Which big companies are doing an impressive job of innovating?

What on earth gave you the impression that big companies innovate?

Small companies innovate. Big companies eat the small companies, absorbing their IP, or duplicating it. Or the small company survives and becomes the big company.

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Re:Steve Yegge Quits, Saying Google Is 100% Competitor Focused by rwallace on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:15PM (#16227964)
> What on earth gave you the impression that big companies innovate?

AT&T, General Electric, IBM, Xerox etc. The personal computer was invented by individuals and small companies, but the transistor was not, and probably could not have been. The loss of the idea that big companies need to innovate, may be one of the worst pieces of news in today's world for the survival of our species.

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