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The slippery slope of "intellectual property" is so steep that even building interface-compatible products is now considered ripping something off. We've come
by wvenable 11y ago
The slippery slope of "intellectual property" is so steep that even building interface-compatible products is now considered ripping something off. We've come a long way from the age of IBM compatibles and the PC revolution.
- et2o 11y agoExcept that at the time IBM tried to prevent people from making compatible PCs.
- izacus 11y agoAnd we hugely benefited from their spectacular failure.
- chkuendig 11y agoOn the other hand you could argue that while the pc revolution fueled on DOS licensing and IBM compatible BIOS was a a massive leap for the economy overall, it wasnt the best move for IBM in either the short nor the long term. Now they do the no-scales business of services and consulting...
- enjo 11y ago$13.5 Billion in yearly revenue is apparently low scale these days.
- chkuendig 11y agoto clarify: I meant economies of scale. In services they are much much lover then in software licensing (example: microsoft in the 80ties and 90ies) or integrated products (example: apple now)
- wvenable 11y agoIBM made several pretty serious mistakes that lead to Microsoft's dominance on software licensing. But even on the hardware side they could have seen huge success but instead wasted time and mindshare creating the failed Microchannel architecture in order to regain control over the PC platform.
- kamaal 11y agoComing soon... You won't be able to SSH into a server/box/machine, from a server/box/machine not built by the same manufacturer.
- aaronem 11y agoHonestly? I'm all in favor of hyperbole where it counts, but come on, now.