送交者: skipper3 于 2005-6-10, 13:08:25:

PC becomes popular only after Taiwanese started making cheap knockoffs.

Protecting intellectual property must have a limit. If everyone must pay a price for using someone else's idea while there is no real competition among patent holders, people might have to pay $100 for a light bulb, $25k for a PC, $200k for a car, $500k to fly from SF to BJ....

• no, they only proprietary component IBM used was the BIOS, - steven (37 bytes) 2005-6-10, 13:12:35
  • what is it about MIPS architecture and instruction set? - skipper3 (435 bytes) 2005-6-10, 13:32:18
    • it is because the cheap licensing fee. - steven (0 bytes) 2005-6-10, 15:26:51
      • here is the real deal. - steven (1324 bytes) 2005-6-10, 15:51:52
        • from strategic point of view, what you said is - skipper3 (187 bytes) 2005-6-10, 16:45:21
          • as a defensive action, D-II is futile. It is easier to take intel plants - steven (17 bytes) 2005-6-10, 20:05:05
            • 对啊，但是没人没技术工厂自动回变出片片来？再说也没听说过拿工厂当人质的。 - skipper3 (0 bytes) 2005-6-10, 22:32:13
              • that's a sarcastic joke. For one, D-II development is definitly not - steven (343 bytes) 2005-6-11, 00:40:26
        • Don't know how much was invested in the project. - skipper3 (442 bytes) 2005-6-10, 16:30:23
  • But they invented the architecture of the mother board. - skipper3 (83 bytes) 2005-6-10, 13:18:29
    • no, they didn't. PC ISA bus wasn't invented by IBM. - steven (155 bytes) 2005-6-10, 13:40:19
      • To allow patent for a digital data bus does not make sense. - skipper3 (316 bytes) 2005-6-10, 14:06:51
        • even if Britain could patent English, the patent had already expired - bingo (51 bytes) 2005-6-10, 14:45:09
    • IBM 开放了pc的架构 - bingo (0 bytes) 2005-6-10, 13:24:04
      • SO IBM made a mistake isn't it from their own point of view? - skipper3 (0 bytes) 2005-6-10, 13:33:39
        • oh, IBM made a mistake for not to open their ps/2 architecture - bingo (4 bytes) 2005-6-10, 14:47:31
          • That's because of their first mistake. - skipper3 (0 bytes) 2005-6-10, 15:03:49

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