Grumpy_Mike:
With the same geeks, only a bit older this time round.
I think that, sadly, that's not the case: if it were, they wouldn't be making the same mistakes.
I remember when the Mac first came out. My local computer store owner was a fellow ex-mainframe geek, and we used to spend Saturday afternoons snickering at how the Apple newbies kept repeating the mistakes that had been made in OS/360.
Not that the alleged grown-ups at IBM did a whole lot better with the early PC design...