Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03590
To: "BEAM Mail" beam@corp.sgi.com
From: "Nigel Joyce" nigel.joyce@qr.com.au
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 11:11:49 +1000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Evolution Comparison
Holy S*it,
My naive comparison between the success of the human "hive" and
the potential success of bot hives has degenerated into a bitch fight, this
conversation started out about evolution and has devolved into this. Darwin
would be pissed!
Blue Skies
---Buzz---
>
> > Ummm.. No argument there. He's done the bulk of the conceptual R&D on
our
> > kits, and he gets royalties because of it.
> I thought he got royalties for his ownership of certain patents and
> copyrights? Hmm, you think he would help me develop my kits? I kind of
doubt
> it. And you can't see the ramifications of being the only supplier, the
only
> retailer with Tilden helping with you product, and the only commercial
> presence at workshops and on the net has a huge negative impact on the
> viability of encouraging competition. Anywhere else in the business world
you
> would be considered brushing up against antitrust laws. It would seem that
> the rest of us have a much harder row to hoe when it comes to developing
any
> sort of expansion of BEAM commercial presence on the web or anywhere else.
In
> my opinion, that seriously undermines the ability to expand the
technology.
> Jim
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