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by rbanffy 5755 days ago
> Are 20 years of frustrated tech entrepreneurs an unreasonable price to pay for that?

Why are you so sure 20 years of frustrated tech entrepreneurs would be unable to give the world something better? Too many eggs in too few baskets...
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jasonlotito 5755 days ago
/me points to Linux.

Granted, it's not quite 20 years.

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rbanffy 5755 days ago
I would point to Ataris, Amigas, Transputers, RISC workstations, Lisp Machines, Xerox Star, Connection Machines, supercomputers, ... Not to mention the software that would be developed today if we weren't stuck with glorified 8080s running 60's OSs (Linux is Unix and NT is VMS)...
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binomial 5755 days ago
It is not unlikely that many of those would end up as failed endeavors whether or not MS existed. We can only speculate though.
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pchristensen 5755 days ago
I figured MSFT's reign of terror was from the mid 80s to the early '00s, then rounded up as a courtesy.
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