" ... like to write their own version" It's a good thing no one else ever wrote their own version of history ... oh, wait, _everyone_ does that! They once called it "To the victor goes the spoils (of victory)." Jealously will get you nowhere, by the way. Inferior products and services can only be marketed for so long before end users find and demand something better, so, anything that lasts more than a marketing flash in the pan is more likely to be satisfying a real need.
For a long time, IT nerds who were getting payola from certain convicted monopolists forced end users to suffer with inferior hardware and software, but, when it came to spending their own money, users found the better products that weren't hamstrung by a registry, that weren't marketed solely by comparing meaningless MHz and MBs, that were based on hardware capable of supporting upwards of half-a-dozen first-digit major version OS upgrades provided at no additional cost, that were based on close observation of actual humans using prototypes of next-version products and responding with improvements based on voluminous user feedback, that were copied endlessly, but with inferior results, etc., etc., etc. Estate and garage sales of retired engineers' collections who are downsizing are lucrative sources of ... sources! If anyone wants 4004 code, just open up one of those shiny silver or dark green boxes on a corner of any intersection with a traffic light ... It's "lawsuit", not "law suite", BTW. Slingers of code and CAD layouts have to get every single character and trace absolutely correct. On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:15 PM dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > It is such a shame that in the "information age", we have lost so much of > the information. It doesn't help when we have people like Jobs that like to > write their own version. > It is even worse when companies think it is a law suite risk to keep > information more than a year. It is all lost. > "The information lost age" > Dwight > >
