It's definitely one of the saddest stories in our industry. Peter Norton's books literally taught me to program as a teenager, and now his name is synonymous with mal/bloatware.
It'd be nice if shoutouts included time spans, thusly:
"In my travels, I always had my copies of Norton [1981-1989] books and utilities."
I respect any artist (creator) that manages to get paid, so I don't begrudge the sale/merger with Symantic. It's just too bad Things Fall Apart because number must go up.
I'll never begrduge anyone for "selling out" until I'm given a similar opportunity to do so myself.
Peter Norton clearly had interests other than running a software company, and I can't say I blame him.
Speaking as a fan of Norton's books and utilities in the DOS era.
Many cases of this happening too, people loved and celebrated for years/decades, then does something that just absolutely tarnishes everything they would have been remembered for. Philippe Pétain comes to mind as an extreme example, one of France's greatest national heroes up until late in his life, he became head of the Vichy regime and collaborated closely with Nazi Germany.
> Norton selling his company is exactly like Pétain collaborating with Nazi Germany
I wish I didn't say that, but what can you do.
Sometime y'all need to probably chug a glass a water and re-read the comment you're about to reply to.
He picked the wrong side obviously, but is it also possible he did what he though was best for France? Both things can be true.