>>I was kidding?
I know you don't believe always better manually or that IBM stands for that! I was just musing on the recurring patterns. E.g. it's a shame IBM didn't reinvent itself as effectively as Apple, but nor has Microsoft.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
