Xerox did research outside their business model, and when you do that you should not be surprised that you have a hard time dealing with it - any more than if some bright guy at Pfizer wrote a word processor. Good luck to Pfizer getting into the word-processing business. Meanwhile, the thing that they invented that was similar to their own business - a really big machine that spit paper out - they made a lot of money on it. —Nathan Myhrvold