Grim, the problem is that you refuse to accept that the Commodore
was a toy, designed to be a toy. It cost 135$ to make and sold
for 599$, down to a couple of hundred. Even ToysRUS sold it.
Yes it sold by the millions and went nowhere, as its potential
was limited.

The Apple Mac was all about the future of desktop computers.
It sold for 2500$ and people involved with graphics bought
it, as other hardware doing the same cost 10k$.

The GUI along with a mouse, was all about the future. Apple
claimed many paytents and even took MS to court over Windows 3,
but lost. That very basic Mac system still dominates our
desktops today.

Had Apple played their cards correctly, Gates would have
never stood a chance, MS would never have gone anywhere.
Instead they did nothing for 10 years, until MS left them
in the dust

“Grim," back at you - all the history of this thread has proven, is that you are incapable of admitting when you are wrong.

Grim, I was buying computers before IBM decided to enter the Personal Computer market and before Microsoft,

Apple was the dominant supplier, against Kaypro, Osborne, Sinclair and that funny thing which was just a fat key board. The slow old days when 64k of ram was "big" and storage was one or two 50k floppy drives and the OS was called CPM and only had about 6 commands.

“As you yourself point out, his OS has become the 'standard', and his company is the only one allowed to produce it.”

Thats the thing with “intellectual property”, although I do recall it was the US FTC under George Bush who did work most vigorously to separate the OS from the applications, like Australian ACCC works at separating into different companies the wholesale from the retail markets of Telstra.

Grim “Col Stern, I can only suggest you go back and read my post more slowly; although I suspect, even if you read it a dozen times, you still wouldn't understand.”

I understood fine the first time.. and rereading crap does not change the fact that it is crap.

So, why waste another minute of my time on the insignificant ramblings of the intellectually incompetent.

You had nothing to say in the first place, which probably explains why you descend to displaying a love for the failures of Marx and the mass murderers who flew under his banner throughout the 20th century

The only worthwhile thing to do with the writings of Marx and yourself is to use them to either set fire to a library of collectivist defective treaties on equality or to wipe ones backside, either way... it is a better use of paper than preserving the lies and flawed theories of socialism, communism , marxism or collectivism by any name.