egerlach

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[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

Ahh, the comment I was looking for

I would have also accepted: "Haskell did it first."

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

X2go is the successor to NX and works well IMO, though I've never tried Rustdesk to compare.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds to me like lawyers got wind of it and were worried that NVIDIA might sue them because they paid to have it made. They would likely be concerned about this whether or not NVIDIA had a case.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

You could probably do a season about how all the people making up and spreading the conspiracies are all part of a conspiracy...

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, you got my upvote already, but one big reason is that Robertson wanted to control all the manufacturing of the screws and the bits. Phillips licensed his patent out and let anyone make them just taking a tiny licensing fee. Made a fortune on volume. Robertson: good engineer, bad businessman.