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	tso	2009-04-10 , 19:09
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Originally Posted by SD69

Microsoft became one of the worst monopolists in the tech world and they didn't use a single patent to do it. In fact, patents (and OSS) are a bona fide threat to MS.

thanks to getting a nice agreement with IBM that didnt forbid them selling MS-DOS to others, and compaq reverse engineering the PC bios chip, and getting away with it.

suddenly you have 1001 IBM PC compatibles out there, and microsoft can supply them the os thats needed, without being slapped silly by IBM.

they basically became the de-facto os standard, and have done just about anything to keep that status to this day.

its btw the same events that drove intel from a me-to in cpus to the top. their 8086 was not sexy, but it was cheap and available, and thats what IBM needed to head apple of at the desktop computing pass.

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