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To: Paul Engel who wrote (75932)	3/10/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: louis mason	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Are you sure that it's the royalties that INTC is trying to avoid? Everybody pays for something, look at what all of the companies pay for Windows98. I think it's rather a problem that Apple has released the developers format of Firewire to all of the peripheral makers for FREE, and INTC would rather be in charge of a data transfer format that they had control over- rather than one that Sony & everybody else has developers access to. The problem with pushing a proprietary USB 2.0 format at the same time that they are developing Pentium3-only web sites & the ChipID technology is that they may retain so much control over their products that other developers will use them less. In a way this could lead to the same mistake that Apple made years ago- but appears to be changing now. That is, one where nobody else can contribute to the technology. All I'm saying is that there is strength is diversity sometimes- and overcontrol hinders the products that others might develop that make INTC products really enjoyable. lmason