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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by drcode on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:06AM (#16947688)
It's a counterfactual- I suspect we'd have more advanced technology in other sectors and more global economic opportunity across the board if Microsoft hadn't abused their monopoly power and slowed progress in computing advancements, which could also have saved lives indirectly... but we'll never know.
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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by shawnz on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:39AM (#16947831)
> slowed progress in computing advancements

What? How does your operating system limit the kind of computing that you can do?

Furthermore, how can you say that Microsoft's monopoly position didn't actually allow them to accelerate the progress of computing even further than their competitors might have otherwise?

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by drcode on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:49PM (#16948451)
Look up what "counterfactual" means. Sure, it's possible the world is a better place because of the Microsoft monopoly, just as the Microsoft apologists claim.
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