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Andreessen Interview Discusses Post-Crash Innovation
kevcol writes "The SF Chronicle has an interview with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, talking about innovation after the dot-bomb crash, how AOL doesn't understand its own customers, his reaction to some comments by Larry Ellison, who believes that 'innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle', and Andreessen's post-Netscape experience as head of OpsWare (formerly LoudCloud)."
You forgot the largest currently run private R&D facility, IBM! You know, the guys who churn out more than a patent a day. MS research has done little with their money, HP unfortunatly is no longer really in the R&D game, Bell Labs is gone, and PARC too is a memory.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
That was one of the Akamai cofounders:
Akamai Technologies, the Cambridge Internet company whose 31-year-old cofounder Daniel Lewin died when Los Angeles-bound American Airlines Flight 11 became the first hijacked jet to slam into a World Trade Center tower, held a private service but also remembered Lewin with a tribute at its Web page.
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...and they DO contribute to the Open Source community.
http://oss.oracle.com/
I think this issue depends upon who is defining "innovation." If you define it as coming up with new ideas, history has demonstrated that almost all great innovations have been the brainchild of a single person. If you define innovation as taking someone else's early work and slapping your name on it and calling it your innovation, then yes, corporations lead the way with that brand of "innovation."