[davidmanze]

  Ah yes, by our independent powers of extrapolated forward thinking and imaginary conceptions  ........... we both came upon, unbeknownst to us ....... and via totally independent paths ...... a combination of two visions that were clearly destined to unite us together into one of the biggest business ventures of mankind  .........  
  ........ what with your prophetic tablet visions and my radical redesign of the humble milk-float the world was our oyster ! 

   we so nearly had it all ........ so how the fuck did Elon Musk, now the richest man in the world, get to hear about it ??           

Because some people do not take ideas for granted, as in, being obvious, but actually think there is a chance to make money from it. And too often, they are very ruthless as well. <LOL>

Actually, in the late 80's I got so frustrated with so-called mouse-libraries as a developer, that I wrote a a mouse-library myself in 8086-assembler, which allowed for setting up mousing areas with functions coupled to them based on movement, clicks, control- en function-keys, which you only needed to set up once at the start of your application or screen, and they would function throughout, instead of having to programmatically check for mouse-movements and -clicks all the time. This was still under DOS. Never even thought of marketing it.

And then there was Windows <ROFL>

And I have a few more examples like this, but I guess it is really beyond the scope of this forum, or thread for that matter.

 
  Yeah, grins all round ..   ........ we've covered quite some ground here already  ....... we'd better leave a few other topics and giggles for another day !!