CP wrote --

> Bill Gates started that -- his real genius wasn't programming -- it was 
> marketing.

  Yep.  Without IBM and the deals he made he would still be in his
basement.
  But like everything else, if not that person and whatever they
invented/improved/marketed, etc it would have been someone else.
  If not Watts and the steam engine, it would have been someone else at
some later point in time for example.

> Now Marketing gets a heavy say in what changes get done 

  Gotta keep pushing more of the product out the door.
  Just add a few new bells and whistles and call it "new and improved".
  I always ask myself when I read that what was wrong with it before?

> Oh well, such is the world.  The rich & powerful in the leadership cabals seek to have maximum information+control over the domains they've claimed.
> 
> I'm fine with that, sort of, just so long as they let me alone to do my own  thing.

  Same here.
  Joe


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