Comments on: Shift Happens (at PARC) http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2010/03/shift-happens-at-parc-3/ perspectives, trends, discussions Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Bernstein http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2010/03/shift-happens-at-parc-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1408 Mark Bernstein Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:37:23 +0000 http://blogs.parc.com/?p=2918#comment-1408 Trevor, Yes, it's true that we don't commercialize our technologies into markets directly. <a href="http://www.parc.com/services/industry-contributions.html" rel="nofollow">Here's a partial list of companies</a> we have enabled to capture value, not including Xerox's multibillion dollar laser printing business. By the way, we did not invent the mouse (Doug Engelbart at SRI did); it was simply <a href="http://www.parc.com/about/milestones.html" rel="nofollow">our choice of GUI pointing device for personal computing at the time</a> based on a principle called Fitt's Law. Our focus today is on helping all our clients -- Xerox, as well as many others -- innovate for competitive leadership or new business creation. Open source is one effective strategy to enable software market creation and technology adoption. We just delivered an <a href="http://www.ccnx.org/" rel="nofollow">open source release for content-centric networking</a> and are working with clients on commercialization of applications on top of that platform. Trevor, Yes, it’s true that we don’t commercialize our technologies into markets directly. Here’s a partial list of companies we have enabled to capture value, not including Xerox’s multibillion dollar laser printing business. By the way, we did not invent the mouse (Doug Engelbart at SRI did); it was simply our choice of GUI pointing device for personal computing at the time based on a principle called Fitt’s Law.

Our focus today is on helping all our clients — Xerox, as well as many others — innovate for competitive leadership or new business creation. Open source is one effective strategy to enable software market creation and technology adoption. We just delivered an open source release for content-centric networking and are working with clients on commercialization of applications on top of that platform.

]]> By: Trevor Cutrer http://blogs.parc.com/blog/2010/03/shift-happens-at-parc-3/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Trevor Cutrer Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:19:57 +0000 http://blogs.parc.com/?p=2918#comment-1406 PARC doesn’t commercialize its technologies into markets directly...This is true, as proof: I don't know if its widely known today, but it was you guys (as Xerox PARC) that invented the mouse Apple "popularized" (for a better neutral non-accusatory term?) Could this be called "Open Source Tech"? PARC doesn’t commercialize its technologies into markets directly…This is true, as proof: I don’t know if its widely known today, but it was you guys (as Xerox PARC) that invented the mouse Apple “popularized” (for a better neutral non-accusatory term?) Could this be called “Open Source Tech”?

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