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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:16:04 -0800
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:25:17 -0500
"WokieSux282@ud0s4.net" <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

> Not entirely sure why CBM crashed and burned. The IBM box changed
> public perceptions a bit - and all those nice plug-in slots on the
> board were better than the usual CBM approach of cartridges and
> serial peripherials. The home game market switched towards dedicated
> devices as well. Guess CBM management bought a faulty crystal ball.

The writing was probably on the wall for all the smaller players when
IBM decided to get into the market (though the clones eventually ate
*their* lunch,) but CBM suffered from gross mismanagement verging on
straight-up embezzlement in its last years, to boot; very much a fore-
runner to a lot of the "looted & pillaged by reaving MBAs" stories of
the 21st century :/