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Whoa I had never heard of a plug fest before, the concept seems pretty interesting. Silly of me to assume the mega corps just buy their competitor’s products in
by TheJoeMan 5y ago
Whoa I had never heard of a plug fest before, the concept seems pretty interesting. Silly of me to assume the mega corps just buy their competitor’s products internally.
- myself248 5y agoBuying each other's products only gives you what's actually made it to market. Plug-fests are full of unreleased stuff. (Buying each other's stuff, to tear it down for competitive analysis, is exceedingly common. But you don't do that at a plugfest.) Trivia: Plug-fests used to be called Bake-offs, but Pillsbury sued to stop it: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/sipit/pillsbury.html https://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/sipit/pillsbury.html Trivia 2: Bluetooth calls theirs an "unplugfest". https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-resources/unplugfest-event-guide/ https://www.bluetooth.com/bluetooth-resources/unplugfest-eve...