[opendtv] Re: I'm starting to feel sorry for, and worry about, Apple

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:24:29 -0500

Tom Barry wrote:

> The supposed openness came more from IBM not giving a whole
> lot of thought to legal protections to cloning at first so
> things like the Phoenix bios and the Compaq clones could be
> developed without being sued out of existence.  IBM
> immediately tried to rectify this but it was too late.

> For the most part nobody bought [the PS/2, which IBM tried
> to protect with many patents] either, greatly for the same
> reason. And IBM is long out of the PC business now.
>
> It is a general rule that if you spend more sweat and dollars
> protecting your technology instead of making it better then
> you will eventually lose your market and have nothing to
> protect.  (see TV ;-) )

Wait, Tom, I'm struggling to follow your logic.

IBM failed to close its shop in time, when they first designed the original ISA 
PC, and they are now out of the PC business altogether.

Apple instead created a walled garden, and they continue to sell their 
overpriced products with their limited-use applications.

Tell me again why it's a bad idea to protect your technology? I mean, from a 
company's viewpoint?

Bert
 
 
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