• helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    All of it. But mostly the “kept the tech to themselves”. What “tech”? Why?

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      2 months ago

      Sony kept Betamax format proprietary they won’t allow anybody to use it freely. While VHS was made open source.

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        2 months ago

        You ever heard of a little thing called Blu-Ray? Was that open source?

        Ever heard of a little company called Apple? Because they’re basically the antithesis of open source but still insanely successful.