It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition so they can kill the competition, it’s how Microsoft was founded.
It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition so they can kill the competition, it’s how Microsoft was founded.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Founded? I know they did this as they grew, but founded?
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Not quite. The founding is actually worse.
Bill Gates was shown, in good faith, a tech demo by, I think IBM but I may be wrong with that, for a new graphical user interface they were planning on releasing soon, and he just stole it and released windows, before they could get their product to market.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I looked it up as I was curious.
Apple and Microsodt both licensed some interface stuff from Xerox and they were both working on a windows like OS.
Apple was ahead, and gave them a sneak preview.
Then I guess MS wanted to do something like that and told Apple they’d give them time frame they wouldn’t release anything in (like a year or two later) and then they said fuck it and released it early.
Then Apple sued MS.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I think it was Kodak they stole from, dos they bought