> He held the industry back in multiple ways, for years. This is an oft-repeated meme, but outside of anecdotes where they were being mean to competitors, the

> He held the industry back in multiple ways, for years. This is an oft-repeated meme, but outside of anecdotes where they were being mean to competitors, there is no evidence of the software industry being harmed by its practices on any meaningful scale. In fact, at least one study looked at economic data and found no empirical evidence for it: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498