> It is hard to imagine Microsoft not having stifled TRON as an OS for general users anyway. Still it is a shame that the Japanese government had no strategy an

> It is hard to imagine Microsoft not having stifled TRON as an OS for general users anyway. Still it is a shame that the Japanese government had no strategy and corporate Japan was such a coward. If they had envisioned the future rise of information technology correctly, they would have known about the superiority and importance of their software. It sounded from this same article like geopolitical pressure had been brought to bear. Not knowing more about the situation, I'm not ready to call that "such a coward"; it might've been the right call. For example, imagine a parent accepting humiliation, to protect their children from an immediate threat.