If you look up the Wikipedia page for WordStar and try to trace who owns the assets now, you find a tall stack of software companies that were acquired by others and eventually it seems to loop.
* WordStar was created by MicroPro International
* They were acquired by SoftKey
* They acquired The Learning Company and took that name
* Then they were acquired by Mattel
* ...which sold the assets to Gores Technology Group
* ...which split into GAME Studios, yet another "The Learning Company", and Broderbund
* ...which was acquired by SoftKey?
Or maybe it was part of one of those Learning Companies that sold its assets to Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited? I think they're now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology.
The Learning Company acquisition by Mattel was one of the worst deals ever. There was strong evidence at the time that the financials for The Learning Company were overstated.
And yet Kevin O'Leary's various opinions on business and political matters are, for some reason, widely reported even to this day.
* WordStar was created by MicroPro International
* They were acquired by SoftKey
* They acquired The Learning Company and took that name
* Then they were acquired by Mattel
* ...which sold the assets to Gores Technology Group
* ...which split into GAME Studios, yet another "The Learning Company", and Broderbund
* ...which was acquired by SoftKey?
Or maybe it was part of one of those Learning Companies that sold its assets to Riverdeep Interactive Learning Limited? I think they're now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology.