this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
520 points (98.1% liked)

Memes

45742 readers
1421 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Plenty of shady monopolistic things happened under Gates as well. The original Explorer antitrust lawsuit dates from the late 90s, the ACPI debacle, etc.

[โ€“] LogicalAIs@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I mean it's always been the modus operandi at Micro$oft from day one when they fucked over the guy who wrote DOS.