At least TrueSpace lasted this long, although I didn't really like the interface any more than I did when the Amiga version was called Caligari.

Microsoft should stick with Office. And be glad if they can survive with that.
People are getting tired driving the trabant amongst the computers.

Throughout human history it has been the community that ultimately owned and benefited from ideas, but of course twentieth century capitalism changed that.

Whether or not this is a good thing, I really don't know – there are good and bad arguments on both sides. But I do know that there is now growing evidence that communities were better off in the 1970s when fewer oligopolies ruled the world. Autodesk is an oligopoly (amazingly, before Reagan and Thatcher there used to be rules that prevented this from happening).

My feelings on intellectual property are this: If a community is paying for its use of an idea, then over time it deserves to take automatic ownership of that idea.

The period over which the community takes ownership should be long enough so as not to stifle entrepreneurship, but should also be short enough so the community benefits (this benefit must be in addition to any so-called economy trickle down effect because of the effect’s gross inconsistency).

Can you imagine, say after 12 years of the release of Windows XP that its source code automatically becomes public domain.

On a closing note, did you know that over 57% of the Western population are violating at least one intellectual property related law in a non-petty way. Does this mean over 57% of the Western world are criminals – or does it mean that the rules need changing?