begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:11:21PM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: [attribution lost] > >>"Why haven't they got bought out yet?" is a good question to ask, though. > > > >It's probably easier to steal it. > > Not in chips, it isn't. > > Just because you have a chip in your hand doesn't mean that you know all > the recipes that went into it. And even the smallest of semiconductor > manufacturers have dozens of procedures for overcoming engineering > problems that they encountered.
Reverse engineering != steal. I was thinking of actual industrial espionage. > I stand by my statement: if they were real, they'd have been bought. Which might be his intent. > There are just too many people who would kill to have such a product s/people/entities/ > (IBM, Dell, Qualcomm, Intel, Seagate, Apple, etc.) for *all* of them to > not bite. Your reasonable world-view is cramping my cynicism. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
