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Originally Posted by JohnGalt
Yes, absolutely! We're stuck with M$ today because IBM did precisely this with their early IBM-PC while Apple chose a closed and heavily royalty-levied format for Mac hardware. As a direct result of those choices the PC is ubiquitous while the Mac (sorry Mac fans) has never risen beyond niche product status. M$ is a software company, they'd con others into building their hardware if they could but that's precisely the question: will anyone want to take on this task for them?
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Not exactly.
IBM never wanted to make the PC an open platform but it was the reverse engineering of the BIOS who made that another companies starte to make PCs. Perhaps my memory fails to me but IBM wanted to close the PC with PS/2 architecture and the reaction of the industry was the EISA bus. The reason why Mac failed was the software, All the IBM PC are compatible with former OSes and software, the first Macintosh wasn´t backwards compatible with Apple II software.
Now about 360 and the possible license... are they talking about 3DO again? putting more companies in the equation won´t make the 360 more sold and more popular. Do you remember 3DO, it will be the same then.