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[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 days ago (11 children)

My memory might be weak on this topic but Microsoft has already went through a lawsuit due to not allowing people to use other browsers. And that case made Bill Gates lose money.

Might be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Also, not trying to be smart or anything but Microsoft isn’t run by Bill Gates anymore. All these shady things started happening after he left. I think he allowed the Company to buy him out because he was getting too old. I’m not really sure on why he did/allowed that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Plenty of shady monopolistic things happened under Gates as well. The original Explorer antitrust lawsuit dates from the late 90s, the ACPI debacle, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean it's always been the modus operandi at Micro$oft from day one when they fucked over the guy who wrote DOS.

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