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Re:Bill Gates, Hero by jasonlotito on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @03:47PM (#1695595)
/me points to Linux.

Granted, it's not quite 20 years.

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Re:Bill Gates, Hero by rbanffy on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @04:05PM (#1695652)
I would point to Ataris, Amigas, Transputers, RISC workstations, Lisp Machines, Xerox Star, Connection Machines, supercomputers, ... Not to mention the software that would be developed today if we weren't stuck with glorified 8080s running 60's OSs (Linux is Unix and NT is VMS)...
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Re:Bill Gates, Hero by binomial on Thursday September 16, 2010 @12:55PM (#1698345)
It is not unlikely that many of those would end up as failed endeavors whether or not MS existed. We can only speculate though.
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Re:Bill Gates, Hero by pchristensen on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @04:08PM (#1695659)
I figured MSFT's reign of terror was from the mid 80s to the early '00s, then rounded up as a courtesy.
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