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In article <46100309@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Sometimes the original is a big company, or soon gets that way 
>(examples: Apple, Xerox). They then have a monopoly. There IS
>no direct competition. They make the worst product they can possibly
>sell for the highest possible price. Xerox did this, Apple still
>does, Polaroid tries. While IBM lets cloners make far better


Ha, ha, ha.  If this were true, Apple would be making PC clones.
At the highest possible price, too.  

But seriously, a counter-example:

Xerox brought out the Star workstation.  It was way ahead of
its time and predates the Lisa by about a year or two.  They
were the leader in graphical interfaces.  What killed them was
not that they prevented others from cloning their technology,
it was poor marketing.  This has historically been Xerox's 
problem.  The amount of technology developed but not exploited
at Xerox boggles the mind. to wit: Laser writer technology, 
Ethernet, Postscript, Graphical User Interfaces (as we know them
today) all had their genesis inside Xerox (well, maybe graph=
ical UI's started elsewhere, but Xerox certainly developed it
to a usable form).


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