>...And [the computer industry] stopped manufacturing [a computer that is not designed to maximize computer industry profits] because ...
When you read it back, it sounds silly to expect any company to make products that ever fit this criteria. Except expensive ones, of course, which maximize profits in their own way.
Not only for-profit companies may build computers; non-profit organisations, cooperatives, governments may, too. I think that's a good way out of the problem described in the article.
