Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: rant Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2024 09:09:02 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 18:09:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b46b53054d7fac26bca9dd37b65434a2"; logging-data="152500"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19M65u4tGK6+a9gsqZsGM3w" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nI3/oDws/OCrzdlAQimzsEBI4kY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1729 On 8/3/2024 10:38 PM, Mark P. Nelson wrote: > Look, the whole point of the *personal* computer was that you didn't have to rent time from > IBM to figure out your profit/loss balance. > > Ever since then, every computer company has been trying desperately to revive the "You > only rent it" model to bolster their bottom line, no matter their public face on the question. > > We're getting closer and closer to no longer having personal computers which we own and > can configure/control as we wish but rather Microsoft or Banana computers for which we pay > a regular fee. > > Pfui! Its not just computers. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.