[nacozarina]

because the market race isn’t about building the right thing, it’s about attaining the right market position

when gates got his basic contract, it wasn’t the right/best widget at all, virtually every possible tech alternative was ‘better’, yet he got it and it granted him superb market position.

[dfasoro]

I understand it works for them and they won the market but look at why we are where we are with Microsoft and Windows today?

And then, there is Unix, Linux and all its flavours that the modern internet eventually got built on.