James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: With Rossi's secret in the hands not only of his US partner but a > competitor, it seems likely that development will not much longer be > constrained by Rossi's limitations. >
Yes! I hope that is true. That has been the pattern of history. A gifted inventor or a brilliant scientist who discovers something stands in the way of development, stopping others from improving it. Morse tried to stop his employees from simplifying the telegraph. I recall at one point he was firing people who learned to decode by sound alone. If his investors had not wrenched the thing out of his hands they never would have made the first telegraph line work by 1844. At Bell Labs, Shockley tried to keep Teal from making an essential breakthrough, without which the transistor would have been a useless laboratory curiosity. Teal had to "bootleg" his experiment, working after hours and hiding the equipment in the closet during the day. See: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtransistor.pdf Shockley went on to mismanage some of the earliest silicon valley startups. He alienated, infuriated or fired many famous people. Especially the people he called the "Traitorous Eight" who went on to found Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. He never made much money. He was brilliant and he deserved his Nobel prize but his ego prevented him from contributing to practical, commercial products. Rossi has a bad habit of trying to micromanage work by his partners. Perhaps he has overcome that. He is no fool. I do not think he is as bad as Patterson, who let an idiotic business strategy destroy his prospects, leaving him to die with nothing, and the technology lost to the world. Perhaps Rossi's investors forced him out of that role, they way they forced others such as Morse? I am only speculating; I have no idea what is going on. But it does seem like Rossi is loosening up, allowing the Levi test and the independent manufacturing. That's great news. Perhaps he has secured intellectual property? Again, I wouldn't know. But that would explain it. - Jed
