> After all, Microsoft didn’t stop people from making money off their platform or modifying their computers. That is literally what they did. Be built a busin

> After all, Microsoft didn’t stop people from making money off their platform or modifying their computers. That is literally what they did. Be built a business, lined up customers, and had every one of them fail because of exclusivity agreements with Microsoft. Unless you were a vertically integrated software/hardware business you couldn’t get your OS on PCs because of Microsoft. It might seem quaint now, but there was a market for web browsers! They weren’t free until Microsoft duped Mosaic into giving them a license for a percentage of sales and then gave it away for free as Internet Explorer, instantly destroying any market for selling web browsers. That’s not only preventing others from making money on their platform, but anyone from making money in that entire segment. Literally the entire world was affected by Microsoft’s business practices as the PC industry was booming.