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How do you figure that all of Gates' fortune was built on the back of legislative protection? Microsoft got in legal trouble for bundling IE with windows, for e
by curi 19y ago
How do you figure that all of Gates' fortune was built on the back of legislative protection? Microsoft got in legal trouble for bundling IE with windows, for example. Which was the Government working to hurt MS in favor of its competitors.
- davidw 19y agoCorrect - MS' fortune came from the network effects of their system, but they had to be successful in the first place for those to work in their favor. This book has some good history of "the early years", when it wasn't clear that MS would be the winner that took all: http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/10/in-search-of-stupidity-over-twenty-years-of-high-tech-marketing-disasters-second-edition http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/10/in-search-of-stupi...
- cturner 19y agoCopyright is legislative protection.