> 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.

True -- just like the lightbulb was parallel 'discovered'/invented on both  sides of the Atlantic, unless you believe Tomjmy Edison knew of the other &  simply copioed it, of course!

I wiouldn't say thart muyselfg, as I don't have evidence behind such; all i'll  say is it seems "highly plausible," consdidereing everything else Edison gets  credit for was invented by others. . .

>> 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".

You know it!

"It started, the splash screen came up? SHIP IT!!"

> I always ask myself when I read that what was wrong with it before?

If it ain't broke, don't fix it -- normal perople If it ain't broke, fix it til it is -- Microsoft techs & city road crews

>> 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.

Too bad they don't/won't, though. . . but again, that's long evidenced & was  easily predictable. Pardon the trite tautology, but it is what it is. . .

& nothing but that tautology sums it up better.

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