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Re:Project Loon by jamesaguilar on Saturday June 15, 2013 @12:02AM (#5883949)
How long does a 100k+ employee company get credit for something a small handful of their employees did almost half a century ago? Not that C wasn't an achievement but . . .
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Re:Project Loon by flomo on Saturday June 15, 2013 @02:15AM (#5884288)
The old monopoly AT&T wasn't just a company but presented itself as an American institution. They heavily publicized their Bell Labs inventions to help keep the anti-trust regulators off their back. Unix/C certainly benefited from this.
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Re:Project Loon by mehrzad on Saturday June 15, 2013 @12:05AM (#5883960)
I take my point back as the AT&T of today is not the same as it was back then, but the fact that the company funded this research is what makes it admirable.
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