Alpha: tru64 or Linux. As much as I love *NIX, eliminating themselves from most of the market share, they can have the best chip ever imagined, but Intel will still whip their butts. Can we say Macintosh?!?!
Part of living in a Capitalist society is ownership. A company spending millions of dollars on research has every right to protect its intellectual property by any means neccessary. The alternative to patent is trade secret information hidden from EVERYONE. At least this way a company can recoup some of its expenses by making the data available to others (at a fee, of course).
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Alpha: tru64 or Linux. As much as I love *NIX, eliminating themselves from most of the market share, they can have the best chip ever imagined, but Intel will still whip their butts. Can we say Macintosh?!?!
Part of living in a Capitalist society is ownership. A company spending millions of dollars on research has every right to protect its intellectual property by any means neccessary. The alternative to patent is trade secret information hidden from EVERYONE. At least this way a company can recoup some of its expenses by making the data available to others (at a fee, of course).