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Kinda saddens me that society usually aligns with marketing and business mindset (impressing, selling, profiting) instead of people like Kildall. There are many
by agumonkey 1y ago
Kinda saddens me that society usually aligns with marketing and business mindset (impressing, selling, profiting) instead of people like Kildall. There are many passionated, driven, creative, prolific people with intrisic motivations that are wasted due to commercial forces.
- rbanffy 1y agoWe ended up with the one this society, which usually aligns with business and marketing mindsets, deserves. In time, we might remake society in a kinder, wiser version of itself. At that time, we might even deserve more Kildalls.
- WalterBright 1y agoI remember the early IBM PC days. PC-DOS was $40. CPM/86 was $240. Both were available, people simply picked the cheaper one. I used both, and there was nothing better about CPM/86. Due to inflation, this is like $113 vs $679 today. It was a no-brainer to buy MS-DOS instead. Kildall clearly was a businessman wanting to make money off of it.
- whobre 1y agoIt was IBM who set the price. According to Kildall’s right-hand Tom Rolander, they were shocked when they saw the price difference.
- WalterBright 1y ago> It was IBM who set the price Not what I heard at the time - IBM accommodated what Kildall wanted. Kildall could have sold it separately at a competitive price.
- whobre 1y agohttps://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717254/ https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10271725...
- WalterBright 1y agoThe date on it is 2016. 33 years later. I don't find that particularly convincing. BTW, I've read a lot of computer histories, and I often find errors in them. This is why professional historians try to use contemporary sources as much as possible.