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As long as it wasn't released first, none of this matters.

There's a lot of stuff rolling around R&D in big companies, most of them go unutilized until someone else does something with it which they can copy. In fact, I'd argue most companies have had all the technology other companies do. It's not a matter of contemplating it, it's a matter of doing something with it, and doing it big.

Talking and experimenting is not a final product.