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Re:Ethernet will never work (1974) by justin66 on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:26AM (#22523186)
Seventies-era Xerox PARC cultivated a deliberately confrontational environment for its researchers. They managed to accomplish some great things.
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Re:Ethernet will never work (1974) by kondro on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:49AM (#22523268)
"They managed to accomplish some great things" in spite of being jerks to each other.

Imagine what they could've accomplished if they had empathy and were collegial with each other.

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Re:Ethernet will never work (1974) by Gibbon1 on Monday March 09, 2020 @01:56AM (#22523291)
When you consider, other people took their ideas and build companies worth hundreds of billions out of them, but they themselves didn't. hmmm...
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