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Which is smart capitalism. Running code and all that... As I recall, GE had to give in because Westinghouse with AC could wire more houses cheaper given the costs of the generating plants and the distance advantages of AC. A standard that scales and works is always to be preferred to one that is simply "standard". I think we all understand that lesson. len From: Frank Richards [mailto:frank@t...] On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:11, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > They even took out ads trying to sell it as the > original "killer app". When some states wanted > to adopt electrocution as the "humane form of > execution", Westinghouse (I think), refused to > build the generators for that application. GE, > on the other hand, was happy to do it. > > That's competitive capitalism at work. But notice that GE used the competing technology to do it.
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