Joe - What tripped my trigger were some errors in your views, but I just don't have the time to take it apart, hence the reference to early Silicon Valley history...
There were good reasons all along on why Gates was pilloried by the folks that knew how he got started. Look at the groundwork of CPM, QDOS, and how Billy screwed them over to DOS..... Today's Windows is sill that crude work with a bazillion patches...
When Zanny comes back he could fill in even more blanks, I'd imagine...
Job's life story shows even more of his range of highs and lows, some drug related, but he had the big picture in mind even from the early days... Tim Cook is continuing, but the whole company is/has done great things for its many, many employees, investors, subs, 3rd party support folks, and so on ...
On the other hand Microsloth is paranoid, Balmer is rudderless, putting out 'me too' products long after the openings crated by Apple, remember the Zune? Win8 is being trashed , people are scurrying back to Win7... And take a look at the hardware it runs on, the cheapest foreign made crap around, is anyone bashing them for it? No, because they are only the OS scammers...
weco
BTW, the original Apple board here was shut down because of the gaming, flaming, crap, mainly ignored now, as there are other forums, more useful...
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