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>> Somebody's got to keep the giants honest--Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, the whole
>> lot of them--and the best candidates for that are the small developers,
>> Art's "Genius Companies."
>
>They are gnats on the horizon. If they show the slightest sign of being a
>threat, they are bought out and either thrown into a black hole or
>encorporated into the existing product lines.
>
>Frank Paris
>marshalt@spiritone.com
>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=62684
As brought out in the trial - -
This is called: "Embrace, Modify, then Abandon". Otherwise known as
a dead end for competing technology.