Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed May 04 2022 07:10:00

-=> Moondog wrote to Kaelon <=-

 Mo> A company killing off their own development is different than external
 Mo> investors suppressing technology.  Xerox is a good example of a company
 Mo> killing a good idea because of cost due to the technology available.
 Mo> In 1973 they create the Palo Alto Research Center to research the
 Mo> possibilies of a paperless office.

 Maybe they let their project fail because their business model
 revolved around TRILLIONS OF PIECES OF PAPER?

 Mo> The upper managment was short sighted and seen it as an
 Mo> exercise in spending money.  After all, they were a copier/ imagin
 Mo> company.  Why interfere with their paper driven businesses?

 :)

 I think of the stories of Steve Wozniak approaching his employer
 (Hewlett Packard) to notify them that he'd created the Apple while
 under a work product agreement and HP had first right to his IP. They
 passed on it.






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