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How old are you?

• lisper 8y ago
  53. Why?
  • cptskippy 8y ago
    I'm just trying to understand the exceptional hatred some people have for Microsoft.
    • lisper 8y ago
      Microsoft more or less destroyed the competitive market for computer operating systems and office software, and they did it not by producing a superior product, but by using their market power to destroy any potential competitors before they could reach a significant enough market segment to become a threat. What they did was illegal [1], but the deleterious effects of their illegal actions have never been fully remedied. As a result, we now live in a world where we have to live with inferior software produced by a non-competitive market, and the people who broke the law to make this happen are billionaires. Does that help make it clearer? (P.S. You probably would have gotten less hate from the downvote brigade if you'd just asked me that in the first place.) --- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....