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 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
So that Linux got the users and Microsoft got the money? Yep, that was the thing that got deemed illegal by the DoJ around year 2000 or so, wasn't it?
So that Linux got the users and Microsoft got the money?
Nope. Linux still failed to get any significant user base in the desktop market.
Yep, that was the thing that got deemed illegal by the DoJ around year 2000 or so, wasn't it?
No but Jean-Louis Gassée certainly made the argument that the dominance of OEMs was the real anti-competitive action rather than their APIs and action around IE and Java.
Nope. Linux still failed to get any significant user base in the desktop market
That's clearly beside the point as long as the number of people who bought a machine with Windows and reinstalled it with Linux is non-zero: Linux got a user and Microsoft got the money.
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 ?
Re: (Score:0)
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)
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
So that Linux got the users and Microsoft got the money? Yep, that was the thing that got deemed illegal by the DoJ around year 2000 or so, wasn't it?
Re: (Score:0)
So that Linux got the users and Microsoft got the money?
Nope. Linux still failed to get any significant user base in the desktop market.
Yep, that was the thing that got deemed illegal by the DoJ around year 2000 or so, wasn't it?
No but Jean-Louis Gassée certainly made the argument that the dominance of OEMs was the real anti-competitive action rather than their APIs and action around IE and Java.
Re: (Score:2)
Nope. Linux still failed to get any significant user base in the desktop market
That's clearly beside the point as long as the number of people who bought a machine with Windows and reinstalled it with Linux is non-zero: Linux got a user and Microsoft got the money.