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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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