• Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Microsoft has been pulling this since the 80s… Bill Gates was personally responsible for destroying WordPerfect, dbase,etc competing office software.

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      They also did that stuff with DR-DOS, they’ve been pulling dirty tricks with all their competition since the beginning with little or no consequences.

      And people whine because their laptops sometimes don’t work with Linux when it’s actually a fucking miracle that almost all machines currently work flawlessly despite all the hardware having been specifically designed to be hostile to anything that isn’t Windows.