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In article <14248@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wen-king@cit-vax.UUCP (Wen-King Su) writes:
>  It is
>the manufacturing sector that brings real cash to shore up the economy,
>not the royalties from R&D.

Exactly.  Why spend R&D bucks when a standard already exists?  It's money
spent for little long term gain.  The American company that embraces an
existing standard will be first to market in America, and will be less
far behind in the world market.  The companies that futz around trying to
reinvent the wheel will be, at least on the world market, introducing product
that competes with earlier, more firmly intrenched standards.  No single
American company is big enough to compete effectively in this fashion
anymore.  We lost the race to invent an HDTV standard.  We got started
too late.  Let's face up to that and see what we can do about getting
product out.



				Ron