> I stand corrected. He was in a recent issue of movers and
> shakers in the computer industry in Forbes Magazine, and they did
> clarify that.
Which issue? Might be worth reading -- say, is it on line?
> But, his failure to do business with IBM was his own doing
> according to Computer Wars and a couple of other sources. The
> article in Forbes is quite good.
I suppose that the only real use coming out of Gary's signing such a
poor deal, would have been in keeping Billy Gates out of the IBM machine.
In retrospect, that probably would have been well worth it! But money
aside, the big problem with IBM was always their paranoia about letting
you know where the stuff was really coming from. Even their employee
handbooks, which I read as a consultant, keep saying that IBM people must
not appear to approve of any non-IBM products. I imagine the legalese they
put in the contract regarding disclosures was horrendous. I remember
seeing some of that kind of stuff in passing while consulting to IBM, and
I would not sign anything like that myself.
No, I would lay the blame on IBM. Remember when they announced that
they were interested in distributing software others wrote? They had a
$100,000 lifetime royalty cap on anything they distributed. Everyone
laughed at them! They just didn't get it, and so never made much of a
splash in PC software, not once others got started. OS/2? Warp?
IBM was always too conservative, letting others push the envelope.
Even when they developed the first dynamite white LCD screen laptop, high
level management said NO! And held it back till several other companies
had them on the market. (I heard the stories from inside IBM, when those
machines became available as "remainders", sold internally at very hefty
discounts to employees.)
History... Well, IBM was a lot better than TI, who sued anyone
developing software for their little personal computer... They wanted the
whole pie. They still had that and a lot of their little machines when
the dust settled. Sometimes you just wonder... Then you look at
yourself, and wonder what you might be missing today...
And remember when HP said no to these two kids, Jobs and Wosniac?
One of the first Apple motherboards, (a "1", not a 2,) is on display at
Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale.
Closed mindedness has cost American industry an incredible amount of
profits!
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