>In order to win in this war, programmers had to be both trained and talented in computer science... Being long enough in the tooth to have been 'hacking' back

>In order to win in this war, programmers had to be both trained and talented in computer science... Being long enough in the tooth to have been 'hacking' back then, I'd strongly disagree with that since - and rather obviously given the era - there was little training to be had. Rather, I'd characterise it as being a time where anyone (irrespective of talent or training) could get their own computer and be the master of it. Personally, I resent the system trying to take that control away from us (in this case, trying to pass us from an age of controlling our own computers to having to be licensed, controlled and directed in what we can do with them).