Jack Tramiel, Founder of Commodore Business Machines, Dies At Age 83

LoTonah writes "Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore Business Machines and later, the owner of Atari, died Easter Sunday. He was 83. He undoubtedly changed the computing landscape by bringing low cost computers to millions of people, and he started a price war that saw dozens of large companies leave the market. He also took a bankrupt Atari and managed to wring almost another decade out of it. The 6502 microprocessor would have withered on the vine if it weren't for Tramiel's support. Could anyone else have done all of that?"

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Re:Everyone ignores Commodore

[hackus]

I hope you are wrong.

Apple is the definitive company on using slave labor. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to manufacture a product overseas with people huddled in factories, in labor conditions we haven't seen in this country since the 1900's rolled around, and proclaim themselves "brilliant" managers.

Give me a bunch of slaves and I bet I could have profit margins as high as Apple's.

Oh, and I would like to point out, Apple is a American company in name only. If you look at who they make products for, where they design and make those products, it is increasingly just a small branch office in the USA.

This is all going to come crashing down, when Apple can no longer find any slaves to make the products they sell at the margins they need.

When it crashes, it is going to be a mighty crash too, at what $600 bucks a share?

More like a small nuke is going to go off when it does in the exchange.

-Hack

PS: Oh and as a parting shot. This is one of the reasons why I like GNU Version 3 license. It would prevent companies like Apple hawking the public's hard work, and turning it into a slave based business model. Almost the entire Apple business is based off of public works including its ideas, none of which are original.
(Specifically touch based phone devices or computing devices of any kind as well as the iPad....especially the ipad.)