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It accidentally made it easy to clone by rushing to market, making false assumptions and hoping the enterprise market would soon lose interest in personal compu
by frank2 6y ago
It accidentally made it easy to clone by rushing to market, making false assumptions and hoping the enterprise market would soon lose interest in personal computers.
Rushing to market led to the decision to license the OS from Bill Gates instead of buying the OS or writing it in-house.
An example of a false assumption would be believing that holding the copyright on the BIOS would be enough prevent clones.