• wildcardology@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      They shot their own foot on that one. Betamax was the superior format than VHS but they kept the tech to themselves paving the VHS to win the format war.

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        2 months ago

        You’re going to have to be a lot more descriptive…

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            2 months ago

            All of it. But mostly the “kept the tech to themselves”. What “tech”? Why?

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              2 months ago

              Sony kept Betamax format proprietary they won’t allow anybody to use it freely. While VHS was made open source.

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                2 months ago

                You ever heard of a little thing called Blu-Ray? Was that open source?

                Ever heard of a little company called Apple? Because they’re basically the antithesis of open source but still insanely successful.