[anthk]

You understimate what the Roman, Spanish and British empires could accomplish for its day.

[kragen]

They sucked at product development.

[anthk]

Well, we created America. At first the EULA looked right, but it didn't apply to all the consumers, such as non-WASP people, specially for Black ones.

Later they were community patches but there was a violent litigious case, until the 60's, where the consumer rights were almost fully respected.

But now they made a hostile bid against the company and they are enshitifficating America like the old times.

[kragen]

America long predates the Roman Empire. Hell, Americans had already invented writing before the Roman Empire, maybe before the Roman Republic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapotec_script