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by alive2007 3701 days ago
Good points.

Developers need to make a living. In Microsoft's heyday, Microsoft could abuse their monopoly to coerce developers to care more about making a living than they cared about what they liked (OSS).

Now, this simply isn't true anymore.

My insults lobbed at Bill Gates were merely jokes. I obviously have a ton of respect for the man. Monopolies aside, he was the leading entrepreneur of his day alongside Jobs.

What were my false statements?