Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for universal flu vaccine

Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by melling on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:59AM (#16947937)

Nah, I lived through the entire period. Human nature is the reason we had a Microsoft monopoly. Apple didn’t care enough. The Linux people wanted lots of distributions, and couldn’t build a consumer business model with a gun to their heads.

Open Office was, and is, a piece of garbage.

I wasted a lot of time explaining to people that if we all bought our cars from GM, they would suck. That’s what Microsoft was.

Just let it go.

Although, it sure would have been nice if the Amiga carved out 10% market share.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by Alex3917 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:34PM (#16948670)

> Human nature is the reason we had a Microsoft monopoly.

They straight up bribed the regulators. If Office stored data in an easy-to-parse open format, society may well have already created a universal flu vaccine.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by 49bc on Saturday April 28, 2018 @06:31PM (#16949777)

That’s a really narrow view of the world by someone that’s probably never sold to business. MS products worked exactly the way people who were paid for them care they worked.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by hyder_m29 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @04:21PM (#16949256)

> If Office stored data in an easy-to-parse open format, society may well have already created a universal flu vaccine.

Help me connect those dots please.

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