Re: An ironic Austrian ?
Acorn was in terms of technical expertise a very good company, coding everything in assembler by default however it must be said their business sense failed to match their technical ability.
The ARM splinter that remained after Acorn failed carried the same business management, so whilst they have continued until today the vast majority of the profits from ARM have gone to others.
It would have been nice if Acorn had been continued to be supported so as to continue development of the ARM platform as a home computer but that would have put it in direct competition with the IBMPC/clones and unlike MS Acorn had, I would suggest, too much integrity to cooperate in the mass surveillance associated with the PC.
Instead what remained of Acorn acted to move the centres of innovation for computing away from the west towards where the chips could be made most cheaply and hence loss of control of computing for those that did the original innovation.
Ironic that those that destroyed the home computer market inorder to put a psy in every home also created their own nemesis in the form of reduced western control/money until you look at the track record for that particular three letter agency, dumbasses