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Posted - 2008.10.09 14:00:00 -
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I guess it is just as unfair and just as "should be fixed" that anyone who wants to produce x86 architecture CPUs has to pay Intel license fees.
Make no mistake, Intel got lucky when the 8086 worked, if the state of microprossesors today and the words of the people who build them are any indication, designing these things is lots of theory, but even more art, and a huge amount of luck.
Every microprossesor back then, was based just as solidly in design theory as they are now, the problem is marrying theory with reality and quality of manufacture and the complicated physics of the very very small.
Intel's design was a deliberate but none the less a lucky strike at the most opprotune time, when others were trying to also make the same lucky strike. You could replace intel's name with any other comapany's really, in that area of competition, someone was going to come out more lucky than the other. It just happened to be intel.
You can't legally even "invent" anything that remotely resembles an x86 processor without being sued despite the reality of the luck involved in this event.
The difference in EVE and the real world is that it is science -fiction- and as such -inventing- things is equal amount fiction. Frankly, invention being such a rigid formula with a pseudo random amount of luck is better than you could ever hope for. The "lottery" made far more sense in this regard as an analog to the real world. In EVE you can "invent" anything, things that in the real world someone would have a patent on. And now you are whining that a handful of people, can fix the market full of the thousands of you.
Alt + F4 please, It is not a debatable fact that prices went down as a result of Invention, and now you are whining about your profit margins, because you refuse to admit that you are sustaining a bubble with your stubborn attitude. T2 is not the be all end all of manufacturing. There are areas of T1 manufacturing that are more profitable than areas of T2 manufacturing, due to supply , demand, and consumption. If you can make more profit manufacturing certain T1 items than T2 items, do it, if enough people do it, it will once again become very profitable to do T2 due to a supply decrease. If you continue to manufacture something with super low margins despite having better opprotunity elsewhere, congrats, you're an idiot who places more value on the characters, T, and 2, than your ISK/Hour.
If you can't conceivably make more money doing anything T1, than WTF are you really whining about anyway?
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