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generally it is accepted that monopolies hold markets back
I sold software before microsoft was around, and I bought it before microsoft was around. There were desktop systems with GUIs before microsoft was around.
How old are you by the way?
Sounds like you didn't live before the revisionist histories were written.
"Foresight to envision". I think you are very very wrong on all of this.
By the way, Gates bought the OS off someone else, and is was a copy of CP/M. So where is the "vision" there?
Time to take off those sunglasses dude.
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