Quote:
Originally Posted by JacRyann
Trick here is WHO would be making that huge pile of money with new systems? Certainly not oil-cartels since all their infrastructure and profits is in oil & gasoline. <clipped>
Similar parallels can be seen in U.S. telecom companies fighting for rmonopoly (Motorola vs. Qualcomm) compared to cooperative efforts between Nokia and Ericsson who invented standards that left both U.S. companies in dust while they were fighting in court.
|
You are mistaken. Oil and gas industry is interested in diversifying and being an "ENERGY" supplier. Not just oil and gas. Shell is putting in the hydrogen stations in California. Why? To stay competitive.
Comparing this to a court battle over tech patents is grossly irrelevant. They were not attempting a monopoly in that case and the diversified suppliers of refined products are not attempting a monopoly. Not sure what tech wonderment you imagine existing that is not available today because of that suit, but there is nothing out of our reach.
And while we are on the subject, sometime big companies do buy the rights to a product to slow its development, and sometimes they just screw up. I know none of us had ever had an experience with a large corporation who could simply not get a basic function done and jacked it all up in spite of themselves. /sarcasm/ This incompetence is real in big corporations.