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John Walker, Co-founder of AutoDesk, Has Died
John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk, has passed away. A statement from his family: It is with great sadness that we announce John's death on Friday, February 2, 2024. He was born in Maryland, USA to William and Bertha Walker, who preceded him in death. John is survived by his wife Rox...
Declining to follow in his family tradition of becoming a medical doctor, John attended Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) to pursue a future in astronomy. Our nightmare -- IBM "attacking" us in systems software, Novell "defeating" us in networking and more agile, lower cost structure, customeroriented applications, competitors getting their Windows to act together is not a scenario, but a reality. He cites specific examples such as a very conservative approach to giving out free software or a desire to maintain fixed percentages for the wrong reasons.
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