[webreac]

Hello, I have also lost karma points on this subject. I also feel that Microsoft had a very negative effect on the progress of computer science during many years but it is very difficult to convince other generations. There were many positive and negative effects. To grasp the global effect, you need to have lived all the progress of the previous years before Microsoft and you need to have followed all the commercials fights to eradicate concurrence (dr dos, stacker, borland c++, ...).

[johansch]

Two hours later. Wow, you weren't wrong about the down-voting.

The lack of a sense of history here is disturbing. I thought HN was better than this.

[johansch]

Hi.

It does illustrate the power of the combination of time and lots of money. You can literally alter truths.