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I believe Microsoft had a hand in killing off many great technologies by a variety of means — Nokia, webOS, Firefox OS, WordPerfect, maybe even Amiga. One ironi
by transfire 3y ago
I believe Microsoft had a hand in killing off many great technologies by a variety of means — Nokia, webOS, Firefox OS, WordPerfect, maybe even Amiga. One ironic exception is Apple, which it bailed out (to thwart government intervention).
Thankfully the Gnu’s open source philosophy allowed Linux to survive and thrive. Otherwise we’d be living in a even narrower dystopia of computing choices. (Not even Google would exist.)