26 Sep
2005
26 Sep
'05
11:59 a.m.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
If you're talking about VHS and Beta, I suspect
that VHS won because the
licensor allowed the adult movie industry (read: porn) to make VHS tapes
while Sony (holders of the Beta format) did not license their technology to
the adult movie industry (read: porn). . . .
-spc (Now, had IBM licenced MCA to the adult industry (read: porn) it
might still be a viable contender today 8-P
It seems that the early adopters of any technology, necessary to insure
success, tend to be: pornographers, religious fanatics, and geeks.
Without any of those three, most technologies won't survive long enough to
become dominant.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com