On 28 Dec 2007 04:00:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Van Dalsen, Herbie) wrote:
>I have heard of several patents for non-petroleum vehicles that seemed >practical, viable, and all the other nice words, but have been blocked >by someone unknown. In fact even university students of the past have >developed new concepts that was just stalled. IMHO there are 2 main >reasons for that, the first is that every country in the world tops up >the petroleum prices with taxes that they cannot possibly afford to >loose. The second and most obvious is that less oil will be consumed. So >who is kicking up a stink about the disappeared concepts of the past? But car companies don't care about gasoline taxes. And states want oil independence. It's silly to assume that every single country is controlling every single car company to not give us what the countries are saying they want. >IBM invests a lot of money in the development of the things that we seen >in the POPS, and in the operating system in general. One way to get it >back is to sell the oil(Software), the other is to sell the Motors that >uses it(Hardware), if someone is allowed to just run their software on a >machine that cannot be measured in the same way as a mainframe, how do >you charge for it? How do you license it, without spending millions more >on inventing the licensing structures for PC's that will not bring in >the same amount of revenue? I bet anyone out there that if IBM created a >look-like-windows, feel-like-windows, to run on the mainframe, that >Microsoft will be onto them for patents so quick... Those aren't insoluble problems. And with growing competition for IBM mainframes, they either need to adapt or die. IBM has adapted in the past - they will continue to do so. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
