Yup. Dave Haynie is a good friend of mine(Google is your friend here). It is quite entertaining to hear him get on a roll about marketing droids and clue-deprived management types. Most enlightening.
And no, the problem is not politicians. That's a common trope used by people who desperately want to believe corporations are their BFF.
Yes, Dave Haynie is probably THE expert about clueless management killing superior technology...
I still fire up my old 2000 from time to time and wonder "what may have been..." -- If they told you wolverines would make good house pets, would you believe them? -"Planes, Trains & Automobiles"
