Re: Re: too many re:'s

[Doug Henwood]

Anthony D'Costa wrote:

>Some empirical intuition.  Example: Texas Instruments in Bangalore India
>designed a digital signal process (DSP) chip for use as a controller for
>Seagate hard disk drives.  TI Dallas (a profit center) has the IP on it,
>making millions of dollars, not TI Bangalore (a cost center).  Seagate has
>its own IP, which virtually all PC owners ultimately pay for.

IP is all very nice, but TI probably sells this chip because it's 
good, but in 6 or 12 months someone else could be making a better 
one. It's just capitalist innovation with lawyers thrown in. I think 
you & Michael are making way too much out of this. One reason capital 
is so hot on IP is that it's so cheap to replicate a lot of this 
stuff, and it's impossible even for lawyers to suppress that.

Doug