one popular theory is that research paper alpha* and lab publishing ~died when researchers realized that instead of fighting with marketing depts they could simply walk out the door and get >$100m for their legally protected tacit knowledge gained

california non-noncompetes have a bigger impact on knowledge spreading than github， arxiv， and huggingface combined

*btw this is a motivator for me to set up @aidotengineer as a product-centric industry conference to complement the paper-centric research conferences