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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@therichards.org]

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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