How the Mac was born, and other tales

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Fascinating

I especially was intrigued by this paragraph:

"Then again, it was also Mr. Gates who tried to get Apple to license the Mac OS to other manufacturers. Mr. Gates went so far as to line up (big) companies that were ready to sign a licensing agreement with Apple, but he was ignored by then-CEO John Sculley, whose execs wanted to keep the Mac OS proprietary. Mr. Gates loved the Mac, and wanted his company to make a ton of money making Mac software. So while he may have used brilliant business negotiations to rob Apple of its "crown jewels," he first bent over backwards to help Apple do what he thought it would take to make the Mac platform the preeminent platform on the planet."

Assuming that's true, how would the IT world have been different if Sculley had listened to Gates? Would Microsoft have turned out the way it did, or did Microsoft become what it is because of its success? In other words, which came first, Microsoft's desire to 'rule' the PC world or Gates' desire to spread the Apple platform? Was Microsoft seduced by success, or was Microsoft already planning for a monopoly?

Carl Rapson

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