Thread 106920420

>Invents everything
>dies because of government overreach

Was antitrust laws a mistake?

Yeah imagine being a benevolent entity that gifts the world countless inventions only to have the government step in and kill you because some piece of official paper locked in a glownigger basement says you broke some random obscure law

>>106920420 (OP)
We got massive dynamics now.

>>106920420 (OP)
Google and Microsoft are even bigger monopolies and nothing they ever did was as good or revolutionary as anything made in the Bell Labs.
Despite that, they are still allowed to exist.

>>106920420 (OP)
No, Anti-trust laws in fact need even MORE use with the way Yanks let their modern oligopolies run wild.

>>106920420 (OP)
Wrong pic

>>106921380
Not even close. You are probably thinking of Unix or some shit. Bell Labs invented transistors, lasers, solar cells, digital imaging. They have 11 Nobel prizes

>>106921423
Bell Labs literally invented Unix though. Also the C language.

I say bell Labs, but Thompson and Ritchie, employees of bell, basically did them as side projects for fun.

>Bell Labs and its researchers have been credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others, throughout the 20th century.
Damn. I knew they invented a ton of shit, but that's just brutal. It's no wonder China is winning.

>>106921423
>>106921469
Unix sucks.

>>106921483
Kernighan says they didn't have a budget; they had a quota, and they used it to recruit the brightest boundary pushing mind to come and build shit.

>>106920420 (OP)
they produced so much good shit, it's a shame, no actually it's a tragedy

>>106921525
You could literally only be a windows guy. Linux and Mac are posix, and even Microsoft tried, and failed, building a unix compatible os.

>>106921556
Windows is not better than Unix, I would say it's the same OS but Window has a better interface although it's limited by the use of C.

>>106921469
I know, I just think that the anon who thinks Xerox somehow compares to Bell Labs probably only knows Bell Labs as the birthplace of Unix

>>106921556
Maybe he's really into TempleOS

>>106921602
Terry, PBUH, probably would've fit in with the crew at Bell. Maybe just a dash of thorazine to steady things out.

>>106921469
>literally invented Unix though
what an embarrassment that was. we are still suffering from the effects of that failed abortion today

>>106921862
Are you the same filter evading windows fag in the other thread accusing everyone who uses Linux of being one guy out to get you specifically?

>>106922438
hating unix doesnt mean u love windows. i use linux and i still maintain that unix was the inferior operating system that only won because it was portable and didnt suffer the time and cost it takes to design a well-thought out, consistent, and user-friendly operating system

>>106922683
You have read the post-POSIX Manifest didn't you?

>>106920420 (OP)
it's not anti-trust, it's pretty obvious the ayyyylmaos forced human leaders to slow down technological progress in the 90s

>>106921253
Remember when Internet Explorer had a market share of 36% when the internet had ~150 million users and that was enough to launch an antitrust investigation that almost broke MS up?
Chromium has an estimated market share of 80%+ during a time when the internet has 6 billion users. Yes that calculation is already accounting for Safari as well as the entirety of smartphones globally. But Alphabet also owns the largest video streaming platform on earth with an effective 100% market share, some of the largest advertising platforms on earth as well as the absolutely largest (at 67%+ market share) ad selling platform on earth, silently control an ever increasing share of the biotech industry and are part of the de facto triumvirate that controls email globally.
If only we hooked up a generator to Bezmenovs corpse we'd have effectively infinite free energy.

>>106922846
no whats that? sounds interesting

>>106922683
One guy built it over a weekend while his wife was staying with family. Most of us would spend that time just jerking off with the big tv.

I'd say it's good enough.

>>106923073
>I'd say it's good enough.
how could anything hacked together by a couple of amateurs in a rush be any good? its depressing thinking of the timeline we were robbed of where GNU created their own kernel or lisp machines won over the cancer that is known as UNIX

>>106923119
>amateurs
>casually creates the backbone of global telecommunication systems as a side project
Your a silly goose.

>>106923119
>the timeline where GNU
GNU wouldn't exist without Unix, the entire point of the project was to clone Unix. And that was despite RMS coming from the diametrally opposite philosophy of the MIT AI lab. RMS saw the light and realized that focusing on MITshit like Lisp would kill the movement because Unix was what people actually wanted and enjoyed using.

Now imagine if every medium to large company had a decent R&D department instead of outsourcing everything

>>106923150
They were definitely not amateurs, they were literally the most qualified people in the world because they had just previously worked on the Multics project. Ken knew as much as anyone about doing things "the right way", and he still chose to make Unix small and simple because it's just better that way.
Multics itself stuck around until the 90s but never made any impact except in serving as an example of how not to things, just like Lisp machines and other "the right thing" technologies

>>106923044
https://rentry.co/g7aofwhc

>>106923217
I'm on your side bro. I actually watch the retro bell labs yt vids for enjoyment.

Must've been the coolest job on earth.

>>106923217
>worse is better
you have to be joking. everything in UNIX is an afterthought. security? whats that? users? umm ick... unironically usecase? UNIX is just socially accepted laziness and nothing more. it takes a genius to make great effort to create elegant, correct, and user-friendly systems. it takes nothing to be a lazy piece of shit and foregoing correctness in favor of simplicity. go make a car with the UNIX mindset and see where that gets you. its only accepted in the computer world because of how difficult a task it is to create a good operating system. theres a reason only like 3 or 4 exist today

>>106923290
There's only one non unix derivative os in mainstream use and it's servers run on top of linux.

Windows didn't even have multi user until NT, and all contemporary security was developed on unix like systems and ported or reverse engineered.

Where are your points even coming from? What is this magical perfect os that we should all be aware of?

>>106923241
i wonder who wrote this. its divine intellect. thanks for sharing anon

>>106923290
>its only accepted in the computer world because of how difficult a task it is to create a good operating system. theres a reason only like 3 or 4 exist today
Actually there used to be very many operating systems. DEC alone had 13 different operating system just for the PDP-11, at the same time as Unix. All of them are dead now and Unix-likes rule the world. There really is something special about it.

>>106923365
>There really is something special about it
oh yeah its special. just not in the way youd like it to be. read the unix-haters handbook to read about the issues people had with UNIX at the time

>>106920420 (OP)
Pic related worked there and used his sperm to try to create more geniuses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choice

>>106923384
Oh, there are a lot of issues with Unix. It's still better than the alternatives, including the many failed attempts by "geniuses" to design "elegant, correct, and user-friendly systems". The whole point of worse is better is that it's practical, of course it will have many issues, it doesn't matter because it gets the job done.

>>106923384
>at the time
What are they doing now? Belly aching on facebook about how computers peaked with basic on commodore?
>damn hippies and their pointers!

>>106923413
Based Shockley.

>>106923119
>its depressing thinking of the timeline we were robbed of where GNU created their own kernel or lisp machines won over the cancer that is known as UNIX
I imagine in that timeline you're autistically obsessed about how Lisp machines suck and UNIX was so much better.

>>106921469
They knew not of their sin until it was too late

>>106923501
>concentrate all the low IQ population within the government, because being within it shields you from the dysgenics program
This is a good idea

>>106921556
no, he probably is the average generafag