quote::Guess what! Companies would immediately flourish making clones but almost immediately collapse because other companies would not be developing new technology.
Guess what. The PC is almost ubiquitous because IBM published the specs for it as an open system, no patents, anyone could clone it. It was the closed proprietary hardware systems that died, need I mention Amiga.
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