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by mort96 1884 days ago
But... Microsoft _was_ evil. Their business practices were abhorrent, they fought tooth and nail to kill open source, they were insanely anti-competitive. A big reason they "won" is that they made it impossible for OEMs to compete in the market unless they sold every machine with a Windows license.

I believe your analogy is correct, but not in the way you intended.