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On 30/09/2023 16:01, Bud Frede wrote:
> I think that
> Gates et al acted to hold back the computer industry, even if that
> wasn`t their outright intention.
Yes, and no. By enforcing a standard API, applications leapt ahead.
By being first on the block with an *affordable* GUI they pushed that
meme along nicely too.
But by pushing other operating systems out when their`s was mediocre at
best, they did us all a disservice
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conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the
windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) "
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