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> Human nature is the reason we had a Microsoft monopoly. They straight up bribed the regulators. If Office stored data in an easy-to-parse open format, societ
by Alex3917 9y ago
> Human nature is the reason we had a Microsoft monopoly.
They straight up bribed the regulators. If Office stored data in an easy-to-parse open format, society may well have already created a universal flu vaccine.
- hyder_m29 9y ago> If Office stored data in an easy-to-parse open format, society may well have already created a universal flu vaccine. Help me connect those dots please.
- 49bc 9y agoThat’s a really narrow view of the world by someone that’s probably never sold to business. MS products worked exactly the way people who were paid for them care they worked.