MAC/ Apple //c compatibility questions (sort of OT)

From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_exit109.com>
Date: Thu Nov 19 22:35:01 1998

> On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
>
> > <soapbox>
> > It never ceases to amaze and confuse me how such product information
> > can totally disappear, particularly in a buyout. Presumably, Intel bought
> > Dayna for some reason; I would have assumed it was for Dayna's intellectual
> > property. Obviously, though, that can't be the case... :-(
> > </soapbox>
 
>
> So Dayna obviously had something Intel wanted, but apparently it wasn't
> for their I.P.
 
> This goes back to the same issue as how a company can lose the source code
> to a program they use on a continual basis. If you've never worked for a
> large corporation then its hard to comprehend how intellectual property
> can be lost. But believe me, it happens all the time in buyouts and
> mergers. The guys doing the buying have all the money in the world but no
> technical knowledge whatsoever. They are buying a big black box that
> contains all sorts of things. They're usually after just one specific
> thing in that black box (either one particular product, customers,
> patents, etc) but they have no specific knowledge of what else is in that
> box, and they don't care. After the merger, the people who knew what was
> going on are either downsized or they leave, and the knowledge they had of
> what was inside the black box goes with them. So your favorite software
> tool or whatever suddenly becomes unsupported. Or in the extreme case,
> extinct.

Now I get it... If you want to corner the market in bathwater, you may
have to throw out a few babies. :-)

<<<John>>>
Received on Thu Nov 19 1998 - 22:35:01 GMT