Comment by HaZeust

>"How many of the things enabling the existence of this website are inventions made in the research institute of the Bell Telecom company."

In both giving them the bankroll to research it pre-breakup, and the economic freedom to pursue it under separate ventures post-forced breakup - it was most likely equally valuable.

A lot of things that make our modern apparatus' possible came from both Bell Labs research, and Bell Labs branching out by force.