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6 Sep 2024 01:26:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Knuth says so  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 25 Jun 2009 16:54:33
Message: <4a43e409@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Interesting. I thought the whole point of a patent is to financially
> cripple your opponents so you then have the whole market to yourself and
> can then charge extortionate prices for a poor quality product...
> 

If you want the market to be created, you'll need to sell those
licenses. That's eg. how Sony messed up with Minidisc - they kept MD too
long for just themselves and the prices high, so that CD-R's (and later
MP3 -players) went ahead.

-Aero


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