Zell, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: IBM curses the day they chose hardware manufacture , handing over disc > operating systems to some shlub named Gates. >
I'll bet they do! > Who knows? Entrenched, pseudo-skepticism about LENR *might even save > some inventor/researchers lives - allowing for it to emerge.* > I doubt anyone's life is at stake, or ever has been, but if the technology survives it will be because the established vested interests ignored it instead of trying to crush it. Established companies usually do ignore threats to their existence, usually until it is too late. They do not take competition seriously unless it comes from an established competitor of their own size. Most competitors play by the same rules, so they are seldom an existential threat. See the books by Christensen for details. http://www.claytonchristensen.com/ Established companies seldom if ever try to develop radically new technology, especially when it is likely to shrink the overall dollar value of the market. - Jed
