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the principal inventor and shepherd of FireWire/i.Link/IEEE1394 is Apple



Yeah...but its growth is because of its availability on PCs.

I worked for Xerox for over ten years and saw so much technology that could not be capitalized on because they would not license it to others. I think the PC would be dead if Apple allowed the cloning of their hardware.

If the general public knew what Xerox had in the mid-eighties, what we have now with Macs and Windows is no big step forward.