Re:Why Facebook is spending billions on the metaverse
by dilyevsky on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:02AM
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Not necessarily so if it’s all closed sourced proprietary tech. For example I don’t think Newton had accelerated pda tech probably the opposite
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Re:Why Facebook is spending billions on the metaverse
by nradov on Monday November 01, 2021 @11:09AM
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Even closed source proprietary tech moves the industry forward. Engineers switch companies. Patents are filed. Competitors reverse engineer products. The knowledge diffusion is slower than with open source but it does happen eventually.