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Re:BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla f... by monkeybutton on Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:34PM (#28952141)
Why charge so much to license that no one will bother? Is it sunk cost thinking? Some money from licensing is better than nothing at all isn't it?
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Re:BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla f... by RNCTX on Thursday October 21, 2021 @07:45PM (#28952224)
To create monopoly, the answer is always to create a monopoly.

All of this was set in our future when corporations were not prohibited from having patents.

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Re:BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla f... by gruez on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:35PM (#28953473)
> To create monopoly, the answer is always to create a monopoly.

That doesn't answer the question. Having a monopoly is only a means to an end (ie. making money), not an end unto itself.

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Re:BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla f... by space_rock on Friday October 22, 2021 @01:50AM (#28954067)
It's amazing how broken of a system it is. The theory is ok but I today's world they don't work. Change the time scale to 10 years at least. Or require active use even better
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