Re:History of Xenix – Microsoft's Forgotten Unix-Based Opera...
by dragonwriter on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:32PM
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> Given the first instinct is always to be closed and profit the openness of the PC ecosystem must have taken gargantuan effort to build.
The openness of the PC ecosystem was built almost entirely on IBM's failure to legally secure it (which was neither intentional nor something for which Gates was responsible), and the willingness of third-party hardware vendors to take risks in testing the degree to which IBM had failed to legally secure it (which, again, was not something Gates was responsible for.)
The openness of the PC ecosystem was built almost entirely on IBM's failure to legally secure it (which was neither intentional nor something for which Gates was responsible), and the willingness of third-party hardware vendors to take risks in testing the degree to which IBM had failed to legally secure it (which, again, was not something Gates was responsible for.)