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   > 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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