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On Thu, 06 Feb 1997 17:50:21 +0000 (GMT), W J Murphy =
<wjmu...@enterprise.net>
wrote:

# In article <32F92E...@boeing.com>, Chris Beamis
# <URL:mailto:christophe...@boeing.com> wrote:
# >=20
# > gmar...@primenet.com wrote:
# > >=20
# > > sew...@netcom.ca (John Savard) wrote:
# > >=20
# > > >Iain Wilkie Logan <iain...@enterprise.net> wrote:
# > >=20
# > > >>Or VHS versus Betamax - a case of a
# > > >>poorer technology becoming predominant, which is relatively =
unusual.=20
# > they said that technologyies were not sufficiently different to
# > influence the system.
# =20
# 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.
#=20
# The reason for the successes are not linked to how good the products
# are, it is linked to how easily they can be copied.
#=20
# Betamax - Sony - copyright
# Video8 - Sony - copyright
# Apple mac - Apple - copyright
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# Compact cassette - Philips - public domain
# VHS - Philips?/JVC?  - public domain ??
# IBM PC - IBM - public domain
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# How much do companies have to pay Philips in royalties for making
# CDs? How much do companies have to pay Sony to MiniDiscs? Which will
# succeed in the long run?

Or the PC bus;
ISA - IBM - public domain (still used widely)
MCA - IBM - proprietary (dead bus)
EISA - joint - public domain, not soo good
VESA - joint - public domain, once a standard
PCI - Intel - public domain, standard

Ethernet - Xerox - public - large market share
Token Ring - IBM - proprietary - small market share
=46ast ethernet - 3Com and others - public - large market share
VGAnyLAN - HP - proprietary - only HP is developing (but has start to =
abandon
it)

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# I'm not really trying to pick on Sony. It's just that they seem to
# come up with a lot of different 'standards' that they keep to
# themselves and end up being non-standard.
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