@silas @Dudebro @FortyTwo @NEETzsche @Richard @pyrate @teknomunk You do know Bell Labs and RCA only existed because their parent companies ~~invented~~ patented groundbreaking technologies that fundamentally changed the way the world works right?

And even with all that innovation Bell (the more successful of the two) was a money pit that was only supported by the fact that ATT owned the entirety of communications on an entire continent