That's a bad analogy. The point is not that they came out with a competitive tech, the point is that if they didn't use their own technology, it would be suspect.
Clearly Panasonic thought that they could do something different and better than Nikon, Olympus and Minolta, etc. or they wouldn't have made the camera in the first place. This is like what MS is doing to Flash. They thought that they could make some money by releasing a product that competes with Flash, so they released Silverlight.
It would be suspect if Panasonic used a Nikon camera for all of their internal photography needs, just the same as if MS used Flash on their webpage.
I haven't tested silverlight, so I don't know its merits, but I do know that I would find it odd if MS wasn't even using it.
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That's a bad analogy. The point is not that they came out with a competitive tech, the point is that if they didn't use their own technology, it would be suspect. Clearly Panasonic thought that they could do something different and better than Nikon, Olympus and Minolta, etc. or they wouldn't have made the camera in the first place. This is like what MS is doing to Flash. They thought that they could make some money by releasing a product that competes with Flash, so they released Silverlight. It would be suspect if Panasonic used a Nikon camera for all of their internal photography needs, just the same as if MS used Flash on their webpage. I haven't tested silverlight, so I don't know its merits, but I do know that I would find it odd if MS wasn't even using it.