Summary: A glance at an old antitrust exhibit and what it teaches us about Microsoft's ringleader

IT HAS BEEN years since we covered Comes vs Microsoft, but someone gets back to looking at exhibits. Here is a good pick from a couple of decades ago:

Bill Gates had no plan to compete on price/performance. It was all about monopoly and creating dependency. Fortunately FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) like GNU/Linux and Android/Linux have emerged to save us from his plan for world domination but it has taken far too long because governments did not squash M$ for breaking the laws of competition. I think 2011 was the last year M$ could dictate anything to the world. In 2012 they are largely seen as irrelevant and not a major player going forward.

Dictating to the world what to do is what the Gates Foundation is doing these days. Microsoft was never really about making good software. ⬆

"The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems."

--Bill Gates