The Proprietary Software Paradigm of the 80's / thoughts..
Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:17 am
random musings on the actual viability of Commodore USA.....
Thoughts:
Apple keeps its business going through teams of lawyers actually enforcing copyrights, etc, without its Lawyers Apple Computer would die, because it is much too expensive ..
Software was truly proprietary in the 1980's by accident, in that Commodore software would only run on commodore, Atari on Atari, apple on apple, etc..
However, the market actually chose against this paradigm..
Is the market controlled by the physics of micro-processor design theory ?..
the Commodore Nameplate is too expensive to buy (Market History) but useless in a modern sense.. It is worth an enormous amount of money because of brand recognition and if you look at the actual market Commodore nameplate is worth nothing, because what built Commodore's its feel and its cliques and psychologies is its proprietary nature, and that is something the market has largely chosen against..
Commodore USA was trapped by the, "But its just another IBM Clone.." So people heard the name then went and looked at the computer and it was just another IBM clone..
However, Commodore USA was taking the only path that it could reasonably take given its market capitalization which was a mere $25,000,000.00 or so dollars..
Apple Computer survives using its lawyers, and it has a market cap of billions of dollars... It is probably the only such entity able to survive, and if you look at it in the present tense, it is the only such entity that has survived so it is the only
such entity that will survive.
So the idea with any new Commodore Company would be to enforce some amount of proprietary nature the way apple does...
And maybe Commodore is just commodore 64's and Amiga's from the past and maybe that is the way it should be... so Commodore is Dead, LONG LIVE COMMODORE!!!
Thoughts:
Apple keeps its business going through teams of lawyers actually enforcing copyrights, etc, without its Lawyers Apple Computer would die, because it is much too expensive ..
Software was truly proprietary in the 1980's by accident, in that Commodore software would only run on commodore, Atari on Atari, apple on apple, etc..
However, the market actually chose against this paradigm..
Is the market controlled by the physics of micro-processor design theory ?..
the Commodore Nameplate is too expensive to buy (Market History) but useless in a modern sense.. It is worth an enormous amount of money because of brand recognition and if you look at the actual market Commodore nameplate is worth nothing, because what built Commodore's its feel and its cliques and psychologies is its proprietary nature, and that is something the market has largely chosen against..
Commodore USA was trapped by the, "But its just another IBM Clone.." So people heard the name then went and looked at the computer and it was just another IBM clone..
However, Commodore USA was taking the only path that it could reasonably take given its market capitalization which was a mere $25,000,000.00 or so dollars..
Apple Computer survives using its lawyers, and it has a market cap of billions of dollars... It is probably the only such entity able to survive, and if you look at it in the present tense, it is the only such entity that has survived so it is the only
such entity that will survive.
So the idea with any new Commodore Company would be to enforce some amount of proprietary nature the way apple does...
And maybe Commodore is just commodore 64's and Amiga's from the past and maybe that is the way it should be... so Commodore is Dead, LONG LIVE COMMODORE!!!