iboga

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   by iboga 14y ago

   > If microsoft had not shipped a couple of hundred million graphics terminals the web would have never taken off. I don’t even...
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   by iboga 14y ago

   You are living in denial when you claim that the web would have never taken off were it not for Microsoft, especially when it was/is probably the biggest threat to the open web we now know. Every possible alternative OS would have been at l
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   by iboga 14y ago

   Yes Netscape was having problems around that time, good luck trying to finance the development of a complex commercial software project when your competitor is abusing its monopoly by bundling a free alternative with its operating system. Y
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   by iboga 14y ago

   Right, because Microsoft invented it all (OS-tech) and nobody else would have been able to produce a graphical OS in it’s place… there is a difference between actually innovating and making a difference and simply being there because you we
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   by iboga 14y ago

   If anything the amount of bias is way to low, MS singlehandedly crippled progress on the web for many many years and would deserve to be burned to the ground by an angry mob of webdevs for it. You can develop in Chrome and it just works in