There's a little book (with big words) titled "Earth, Inc. " by Buckminster Fuller that addresses this a bit.
I would say if you start inventing as a child [0], the question reduces quite directly to "Why would you want to wait anyway?"
Think how many lifetimes go by where the real question goes completely unasked of the same exact inventors, "How long do we wait for attractive enough terms to bring the full 1% of the unutilized inventions to deployment?"
Answer that, and many other questions will be resolved.
[0] Like so many always have been doing for centuries, to where there will never be enough positions of eminence to accommodate them, and never was. But who vastly outnumber the credentialed, and especially the most eminent few, overwhelmingly.
I've seen Champagne disappear faster off the shelf more so around MBA's who are celebrating accomplishments having dubious value, compared to engineers who have actually achieved remarkable milestones ;)
Well for decades Windows was adequate-to-excellent for small business and individual consumer use in major ways that Windows 11 is recently continuing to disrespect more and more, as it migrates away from how worthwhile Windows formerly used to be.
All this fluff about the insider program seems to be very ignorantly missing the point.
What's needed more than ever is No BS instead of more BS.
Namely get Microsoft Accounts back out of the picture unless opted in.
Along with curtailing Bitlocker, One Drive, Copilot, and things like that.
Now to make it really good again, there needs to be no further disk activity after Windows has booted, other than user-initiated saving & loading. Plus of course no network traffic other than user-directed bandwidth usage.
Along those lines I think it goes without saying that as soon as Microsoft has any legitimate commitment to open-source efforts, we'll know by the way they document & release everything they know about NTFS.
I used old terminals like this to directly interface to the COM ports of older electronic instruments, well into the 2000's.
By that point the most common failure due to age was from cobwebs that had formed internally between the high-voltage CRT circuitry and the PCB containing the low-voltage logic.
For anybody reusing or restoring vintage CRT units, I would blow them out with compressed air to get rid of stuff like this.
Otherwise in a flash with a final scream and a slightly different smell than normal, it's an instant cadaver :(
I would say if you start inventing as a child [0], the question reduces quite directly to "Why would you want to wait anyway?"
Think how many lifetimes go by where the real question goes completely unasked of the same exact inventors, "How long do we wait for attractive enough terms to bring the full 1% of the unutilized inventions to deployment?"
Answer that, and many other questions will be resolved.
[0] Like so many always have been doing for centuries, to where there will never be enough positions of eminence to accommodate them, and never was. But who vastly outnumber the credentialed, and especially the most eminent few, overwhelmingly.
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