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Even so, good business decisions were very rare at Commodore post-Tramiel. The only CEO who seemed to have a functional head on his shoulders was Thomas Rattigan, and he got canned after a year as CEO because Irving Gould was jealous of him. That the company survived as long as it did under the direct rule of Gould and then Mehdi Ali was nothing short of miraculous.

I'm not sure Commodore would have made it to 2000 even under better leadership, but I'm absolutely certain were it not for Gould's cupidity and Ali's braindead decrees, the company probably wouldn't have sunk as hard and fast as it did.

Remember when the web was (almost) all static content and all browsers had to do was show it to you? When applications were native? We really need to go back.

> It is not a spread sheet

org-tables would disagree.

The way governments these days use corporations and NGOs to work around constitutional restrictions, I'm sure they're pretty happy leaving the payment processors as-is.

"Don't worry! I'm from the government and I'm here to ~~help~~ identify you to everyone else on the planet."

That's no better, and in many ways far worse, than the corpos doing it.

You can always use a distro that doesn't use systemd or roll your own. Sure you lose the GNOME desktop environment, but if you ask me that's a net positive.

systemd is not monolithic in the same way that a brick wall is not monolithic. Sure it's made up of a bunch of smaller parts, but when you start removing any of them, the whole thing starts to fall apart.

Qt?

>I couldn't see a 16-32 bit story. It's like it hit the spot, and stopped growing.

And yet WDC (Bill Mensch's company post-Commodore) put out the 65816, a 16-bit expansion of the 6502 that was the core of the Super Nintendo. So it still grew even if not to 32-bit level.

Steam's end of service on Windows 7 and 8 is based on CEF, just as it was for XP and Vista. I don't see Google/Chromium dropping Windows 10 support at Microsoft's EOL especially given how much market share Win10 still has -- it would be shooting themselves in the foot.

In the meantime, instead of ditching Steam, ditch Windows. Steam works amazing on Linux, and with Proton, the vast majority of Windows games Just Work(TM). You don't even need SteamOS (although it helps).

That's a shame, because there's a lot more to Commodore than just the 64 (even if that _was_ the best microcomputer of all time).

In other words, you're simply making an _assumption_ that Valve will instantly drop support at Microsoft's EOL date.

This is the first I'm hearing that Steam's dropping Windows 10 support, got a source on this?