In my opinion, the statement below is true when it all started with personal curiosity about using a computer. Once the computer became a means to make money, the utility of using computers got intermixed with money and business. Greed took over most of the tech world except for the few that embraced personal computers as personal computersand not to make money off the masses.
- Tarek >> One of the greatest joys of classic computing was running what you wanted on >> your own computer. > On Nov 23, 2025, at 7:35 PM, ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-11-23 8:11 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: >> One of the greatest joys of classic computing was running what you wanted >> on your own computer. What has happened in the intervening years? Have >> ‘software walls’ created a computing environment that benefits software >> gate-keepers(owners of computing technology) by monopolizing creativity, >> freedom to program and establishing a defacto ‘true ownership’. Will the >> future be this or will it be more like the earliest years of >> microcomputing? >> Murray 🙂 > > You have no software ownership any more, or control over you computer. > 1984 it was Big Brother, to day it is Uncle Gates. > Ben. > PS: The lesser joy of 'your own computer' is lack of software or i/o devices. > > >
