You can dislike Gates all you want but he was responsible in no small part for bringing together personal computing to standardize on a platform that was accessible to everybody, even competitors like Linux and Apple. You have always been able to simply replace the Windows OS that came with your PC for something else, this was a great enabler for projects like Linux that could use the supply chain that Microsoft built (but didn't own) to get their product out to potential users. You didn't have to buy a spe
You can dislike Gates all you want but he was responsible in no small part for bringing together personal computing to standardize on a platform that was accessible to everybody, even competitors like Linux and Apple.
It was IBM's experiment using off-the-shelf parts and the clean-room clone manufacturers reverse-engineering the BIOS that resulted in a more-or-less standardized PC that anyone could make or use. Microsoft was just the company that subdued the market for an OS for that relatively open architecture of the PC.
To all the Gates haters here (Score:2)
Let's say, for a moment, that you're diagnosed with a deadly and incurable disease, and you have only a few weeks to live.
Now, let's say that some science lab, financed entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, comes up with the cure for that disease.
Would you take it ?
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You can dislike Gates all you want but he was responsible in no small part for bringing together personal computing to standardize on a platform that was accessible to everybody, even competitors like Linux and Apple. You have always been able to simply replace the Windows OS that came with your PC for something else, this was a great enabler for projects like Linux that could use the supply chain that Microsoft built (but didn't own) to get their product out to potential users. You didn't have to buy a spe
Re:To all the Gates haters here (Score:2)
It was IBM's experiment using off-the-shelf parts and the clean-room clone manufacturers reverse-engineering the BIOS that resulted in a more-or-less standardized PC that anyone could make or use. Microsoft was just the company that subdued the market for an OS for that relatively open architecture of the PC.