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An interesting excerpt "In the early 1960s, Mr. Tantlinger prevailed on Mr. McLean to relinquish the patents to the corner fittings and twist-lock, permitting
by amirmc 15y ago
An interesting excerpt
"In the early 1960s, Mr. Tantlinger prevailed on Mr. McLean to relinquish the patents to the corner fittings and twist-lock, permitting them be used industrywide."
Given some of the discussion on patents I thought this was interesting. I wonder how things would have turned out if this hadn't happened.
- mikecane 15y agoIn the same vein -- - Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips' decision in the face of pressure from Sony to license the format free of charge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_cassette http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_cassette