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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-19 11:52, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 12/19/25 2:13 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> The whole reason that IBM rushed out the original PC in a form that   
   >>>> was cloneable with an OS that they'd only licensed was that   
   >>>> businesses were buying Apple II computers for the first "killer app":   
   >>>>   
   >>>> VisiCalc.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The very first spreadsheet program.   
   >>>   
   >>> IBM certainly has been late to the game, over the course of this.   
   >>> Gates played them well.  They adopted Linux when it became the clear   
   >>> platform of choice for Unix.  And yet Apple is always working with   
   >>> stuff that's too "different", and gets left behind.  It's a weird   
   >>> industry, overall, but I feel great about having Linux as a way to   
   >>> avoid the lameness, of proprietary environments in computing.   
   >>   
   >> And as always, you make a reply that basically has nothing to do with   
   >> the topic under discussion.   
   >   
   >   
   > And as always, you expect the flow of discussion to go a certain way,   
   > that it may not.   
   >   
      
   I expect it not to immediately spring off to your favourite bete noire.   
      
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