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In article <E57ME...@metapro.com.au%nospam>, ber...@metapro.com.au%nospam (Bernd Felsche) writes:
|> In <ant0617210b0fN*k...@wjmurphy.enterprise.net>
|>     W J Murphy <wjmu...@enterprise.net> writes:

|> >OK. Chuck video8 into the argument. It's good enough for the BBC
|> >to use to archive their programs with. Why aren't there home video
|> >recorders using the system (camcorders do). The only Video8 home
|> >machines that even appeared where high end Sony machines.

|> Hi8, isn't it? It's much more compact in terms of the media size,
|> so better for archive storage. It proabbly won't be long before
|> they change to DV or mini-DV.

|> >The reason for the successes are not linked to how good the
|> >products are, it is linked to how easily they can be copied.

|> >Betamax - Sony - copyright
|> >Video8 - Sony - copyright
|> >Apple mac - Apple - copyright

|> >Compact cassette - Philips - public domain

Nope.  Property of Philips.

|> >VHS - Philips?/JVC?  - public domain ??

Nope.  Just as proprietary as Betamax.  Philips and/or JVE were more
open about licensing than was Sony.

|> >IBM PC - IBM - public domain

Nope.  Property of IBM.  IBM fought the cloners lawyer to lawyer,
tooth and nail.  They lost. 

|> By the same argument:

|> Linux - Free
|> NetBSD - Free
|> TeX - Open standard

|> vs

|> MS-DOS - Proprietary and closed
|> MS-Windows - Proprietary and closed
|> MS-Word - Proprietary and closed

|> So explain the "success" of the latter?

|> The answer is plain and simple, and it has been known for centuries,
|> because the same rules still apply when you're selling something.

Yup.

Chris
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