Did you not ever watch the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley?
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LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ironically, the Microsoft success story I remember involved Microsoft creating MS-DOS to sell, not buying somebody else out first. But you know what they say…
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
xor@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
well they did change it somewhat…
i heard the original creator killed himself over the deal
aelwero@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Microsoft purchased pretty much everything they’ve ever “produced”… There was a time when the best business model possible for a good startup idea was to invest just enough time and money into it to get on the MS radar and get bought out.
ramble81@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Case in point why Excel and Word have such different multiple instance launching mechanisms. They were two different companies and they never completely unified how the apps work. I believe SCCM/SCOM is another one.