> Bill agreed to make SQL Server work more poorly stop competing so aggressively. I might have been living under a rock and everybody but me already heard abou

> Bill agreed to make SQL Server work more poorly stop competing so aggressively. I might have been living under a rock and everybody but me already heard about this story. But I would expect that every HN reader would drop his coffee cup reading this for the first time. Is this true? Why had I never heard about it? Why should Bill do that?