Is INTEL not getting it? I thought it is really interesting that this is coming from INTEL. Maybe not so, I remember a case from Greenstein's course (Technology Management) and the strategies that INTEL employed to both collaborate with and eliminate its competition, one case in particular only AMD survived from the group of CPU chip manufacturers. (Was not their philosophy only the paranoid survive?) Certainly that paranoia might exaplain why they care on copyrights, just in case everyone else is whiped out from the information landscape and they are left with the digital key to the whole world. What explains then the schizophrenia on embracing tyranic copyright laws and then doing nothing to their products to enforce the brand new world.
(BTW the INTEL CHIP ID , supposedly turned off by default, but any 8-year old with an x86 assembler can turn on, is alive and well in every Pentium class CPU in the world.)
Perhaps this schizophrenia is very deliberate and a sign that it is OK to enjoy the freedon and openess of this market but just in case statue turns things around they can be ready to create THE MONOPOLY and make that Gorilla seem like a puppy.
Which brings me to the most exciting point, imagine what kind of K sharing INTEL has institutionalized in order to operate as both a strong competitor and close collaborator I wonder if anyone has seen any KM stories from inside Intel.
INTEL STATEGIC ISSUES INCLUDED.
Technical leadership & the patent portfolio
Using patents as a bargaining tool (FTC probe)
Internal info as bargaining tool (also FTC probe) (Not sharing internal docs with OEMs I think was the issue)
The move to smaller chips/low margins
AMD got there first
How Intel responded; was this wise?
New market development
Future mismatch of mkt need & Intels design?
Using existing assets or moving direction toward them
HERE ARE KEY POINTS THAT INTEL HAS PLAYED VERY WELL FOR YEARS.
The frontier/compatibility tradeoff
The collaboration/protection trade-off
The paranoid executive
Anticipating industry evolution
demos
Check out the Gilmore link in particular. Then ask what it is about large organizations (Intel, MPAA, etc) that causes them to be so completely disconnected from the real world............. when they appear to get it.
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