Post #4006874
2026-07-22 07:38 UTC
The trouble with brands re-using names between them and separated by time is that some git comes along and connects the two and now it's there in your head forever.
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@ajft@aus.social 2026-07-22 08:06
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social As a 6809 programmer well before I'd met a macintosh, OS9 will always mean Microware to me
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@fred@social.fthevenet.eu 2026-07-22 09:04
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social and maybe, deep down, there's a commentary about how we shouldn't have allowed corporations to confiscate our own words, like "copilot", or "apple", or "windows", etc... Maybe.