@Ricotta @xianc78 That’d be awful! Without them, who would do all the terrible and difficult jobs educated people feel too good and entitled for?

@Ricotta @xianc78 Is that a euphemism for Mexicans?

@djsumdog @Ricotta I'm no expert on the history of Microsoft, but from what I've heard Paul Allen was probably more involved than Bill Gates and Bill just took all the credit. It's just another Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak situation.

I wasn't even born yet at the time but I was told that had Commodore adopted the same business model as IBM/Microsoft (license their Amiga OS and architecture to other computer manufacturers), Microsoft would probably have never become a monopoly.

@xianc78 @Ricotta The PC was the first big open architecture product from IBM. They sourced parts rather than build everything in house in order to compete with Apple for workstations (even though Apple products themselves were fairly closed architecturally).

@xianc78 @Ricotta The open ended license for DOS allowed Microsoft to make a lot more money once Compaq and others started making compatibles (the only part the really had to write from scratch was IBM’s BIOS).