lol! Nice try, Jed. I applaud your contortions.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, well, obviously Tom Darden wants to get there first then so his >> investment pays off. >> > > Why is that "obvious"? Because of the so-called "first mover advantage"? > The benefits of that are exaggerated. Comaq was not the first PC compatible > but it made lot more money than any other for several years. IBM was the > first in the PC market, but it sold out years ago, leaving HP and others. > Ford was the first into mass-produced automobiles but GM soon came along > and grabbed a large share of the business. > > In many cases, there an advantage in waiting to see how well other people > do before you jump into the market. Japanese corporations took advantage of > being behind the West from 1868 until around 1980. When they finally caught > up, they actually did not do as well in some ways. > > It isn't as if one company wins and all the others lose. It isn't as if > there is only one patent awarded. AT&T got the first transistor patents, > but many more have been issued since 1952, and they are still being issued. > Heck, people spend hundreds of millions doing R&D on combustion technology > -- that's fire, the oldest technology. > > > >> Why lie and say he doesn't care? It seems like such a blatantly >> false statement. >> > > It only seems blatantly false to someone who knows little about commerce > and the history of business and technology. > > - Jed > >
