Re:Bill Gates, Hero
by CamperBob on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @11:46PM
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My bet? Were it not for Gates, today we would have a diverse computing environment, with different OSs and processors...
... any of which you can buy for $5,000.00.
It seems that anti-Microsoft arguments always ignore the benefits of network effects and economies of scale brought about by DOS and Windows. They are usually posted by Linux nerds running sub-$1000 3 GHz PCs that they couldn't possibly have afforded in a world where Apple, Commodore, Atari, and ten more companies like them kept building mutually- incompatible proprietary hardware.
... any of which you can buy for $5,000.00.
It seems that anti-Microsoft arguments always ignore the benefits of network effects and economies of scale brought about by DOS and Windows. They are usually posted by Linux nerds running sub-$1000 3 GHz PCs that they couldn't possibly have afforded in a world where Apple, Commodore, Atari, and ten more companies like them kept building mutually- incompatible proprietary hardware.