I think you mean the license fees killed Firewire. Apple got greedy and lost. | Hacker News

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adamc on Oct 24, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Pulls the Plug Completely on ZFS

I think you mean the license fees killed Firewire. Apple got greedy and lost.

wmf on Oct 24, 2009 [–]

It's the same thing. The purpose of the Firewire patents was to collect licensing fees.

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