To be so completely wrong on such a massive scale and still be smug is crazy to me. History has proven him to be so incredibly wrong.

The issue isn't whether he recognised innovation, the issue is whether Harvard ought to be sorting out a complicated IP disagreement between students. He was quite right to say that the courts are there to deal with such things. It's obviously beyond the function of even an institution like Harvard, leaves them open to all sorts of litigation themselves, and would cost them a fortune in terms of hiring in specialists to adjudicate. This is what makes it different from stealing a laptop from a dorm-room. If the dialogue in the SN is correct, he was also right to point out that the access the twins had, based on connections, is also very unjust. Summers is a douchebag, no question. But here he was just the right douchebag for the occasion.

A lot of hollow words to mask his absolute failure to recognize innovation

What a 🤡