At any rate -- my whole reason for bringing up the economics tie-in is
that many people seem to think that somehow they're going to change the
world overnight and all the established businesses are just going to turn
a blind eye to them. That's like walking into combat thinking the enemy
isn't going to shoot you dead. Clearly strategic use of economic
principles *MUST* be utilized by inventors -- or their inventions are just
going to rot in burning hell. Also, to those worried about people ripping
off their ideas and running them into the ground:
Blow off. Seriously. Not to derail the topic, but remember IBM? Yeah,
those guys. They took the PC and made their technology available so other
manufacturers could build PC-compatibles. They helped to establish an
industry standard. But did they die? Of course not -- because once they
set the standard, THEY LED BY EXAMPLE. I'm suprised nobody here figured
that out... or maybe I'm the only one who took economics in high school.
I dunno. I'm not trying to set anybody off -- I'm just rather miffed at
the general attitude by folks who just want to brush off the economics
side of F/E altogether.