On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:50 pm, Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > > The fact is that Dell does not innovate, never has and never will. Their > > specialty is taking someone else's idea and wringing the last screaming > > penny out of the production process so that they can beat you up on > > price. This is all well and good, but what happens when the last company > > with an R&D budget gets run into the ground? > > Patents, patents, patents. Dell has to pay Lexmark/HP/whomever for > whatever they rebrand as Dell. My guess is the Dell and HP break was > because HP had a better understading of the value of their IP than > Lexmark. ;-) Or if your Lexmark and you're running a distant 2nd or 3rd to HP you take any channel you can get. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list