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with all due respect, please re-think your words.. There are millions of active minds, thousands of companies, multiple world markets.. and you reduce the entir
by mistrial9 4y ago
with all due respect, please re-think your words.. There are millions of active minds, thousands of companies, multiple world markets.. and you reduce the entire globe to "it was thought to be inevitable" ?! do I have to point out the reductio ad absurdum element to that statement? I was there, others here too..
- browningstreet 4y agoIn party conversation parlance, I think the sentiment was common. Microsoft was actually subject to a monopoly decree, they invested in Apple to prop up a competitor, they were eating the lunch of workstations, and we were years away from the "Year of the Linux Desktop". Probably many HNers were part of the other side -- running the workstations, installing Linux, excited about Netscape, but Microsoft felt like a Goliath. That they were eventually humbled, now we live with many Goliaths.