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So his mistake was to not make the world a worse place, hampering innovation?

• toyg 11y ago
  On the contrary, the point is that Gates did not try to own the innovation, hampering it instead. Imagine a world where IE keeps developing at the rate it was between v3 and 5, rather than stagnating as it did after it captured the market. Imagine a world where Windows became free to install and run on virtualized platforms in 2003. Imagine MS building free devops tools...
  • slededit 11y ago
    Perhaps if they didn't allow things to stagnate they could have kept up the assumption that dev tools weren't free. A lot of open source development is predicated on "I want this, why doesn't it exist?". Tools that already exist don't get as much interest (example: MS Office vs Open Office).