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 11 hours ago
Founded? I know they did this as they grew, but founded?
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours 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.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I think it was Kodak they stole from, dos they bought