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That helps explain Gates talking to IBM. It doesn’t explain IBM’s taking the contract, or their massive blunder in allowing Gates’ non-exclusivity clause on the
by graeme 6y ago
That helps explain Gates talking to IBM. It doesn’t explain IBM’s taking the contract, or their massive blunder in allowing Gates’ non-exclusivity clause on the OS.
Lots of companies contracted with IBM without IBM signing off their whole business to them.
Bill Gates clearly was very fortunate in his life, but it’s a mistake to chalk the IBM blunder up to 100% luck.
- philistine 6y agoThe commoditization of the PC is not wholly due to Microsoft’s luck: IBM used common parts that could be copied legally. It helped a great deal.