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pandelis's avatar

... amazing ...

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John Opalko's avatar

Look, I don't like what Bill Gates is doing at all. I think that he has lost touch with basic humanity due to his financial success.

But this is a pretty simplistic take. To imply that Novell failed simply because of a marketing claim Microsoft made, is to overlook many other factors in a very competitive and dynamic environment. I'm not going to rewrite the history of the OS wars of the 90's here. But I am old enough to have participated in them, both outside of Microsoft, and within Microsoft. And I can tell you this is a simple take.

The tech industry was and still is very cutthroat. This was not something that only Bill Gates did. Look at the history of IBM, Oracle, Sun, Google, Facebook, on and on. You will see even more egregious acts.

Bill Gates today is a problem for sure. But the bigger problem is the concentration of power in the form of extreme wealth, in the hands of a few oligarchs whose hubris knows no bounds.

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