&gt; <i>History proves you wrong again. A lot of environment built on fear produced rugged dependable products.</i><p>I think he meant political fear - in modern terms, the fear of your manager yelling at you, or firing you, or demoting you - and back then, of your manager sending you off to break rocks in the far east.<p>That&#x27;s not the same thing as a fear of your hardware killing a man, and over-engineering as a result.