On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 09:17, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:03:40 +0100, Esben Stien <executiv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > So basically they want to protect their investment in getting > > > knowledge of how to implement a powerful firewire interface from the > > > eyes of other hardware manufacturers. > > > > A society where you put money higher than cooperating with other > > people is not a good society, in my opinion. > > Socialism - it ain't pretty... Really. I was going to point out that that is exactly what Karl Marx (or was that Groucho) said. You can see how well that worked out. Jan
