Homer Simpson and Bill Gates buy out

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Cites oceanghost · 2018-01 · on “Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase”

Perhaps before your time, MS was a monopoly and you literally couldn't buy a computer without paying them, whether it ran windows or not. They sold crap at premium prices. They forced computer companies to pay a DOS/Windows license for each machine MADE, not if it ran their OS. The used dirty tricks to sink their competitors, stole ideas, products, etc. They were the original bastards of the tech industry. I have hated them since I was a kid...in the 80s. This Simpsons scene summarizes things nicely: [this video] [LINK]

Cites korethr · 2020-07 · on “Edge install undermines Microsoft’s argument that automatic updates are critical”

Not quite. Homer actually accepted the deal to be bought out by Bill, and then yes, Bill's goons smashed all of Homer's stuff. When Homer queries what's going on, Bill says "Well, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks," and laughs. Source: [this video]

Cites xivzgrev · 2021-04 · on “Just Be Rich”

I don’t agree - it was well known at the time. The Simpsons even had an episode about his competitiveness [this video]

Cites Jasper_ · 2021-04 · on “U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown”

> We already went through this with Microsoft in the past but suddenly it's different? What happened was that the DOJ did everything they could to get Microsoft broken up. They got pretty much the entire country on their side, and during the trials they extracted some hilarious quotes from Microsoft and Bill Gates, like arguing about the definition of the word "ask", the infamous "knife the baby" email. Details emerged about their "Embrace-Extend-Extinguish" policy and their plans to try and bulldoze the free software movement. Popular perception of Bill Gates and Microsoft at that time sunk to an all-time low [0], picturing Gates as a greedy global capitalist, and Microsoft as a cartoonishl

Cites Jasper_ · 2021-08 · on “Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store”

> In 2001, Microsoft "constituted unlawful monopolization" under Antitrust Act for bundling a web browser with their operating system. You're forgetting how that ended. Remember, the DOJ threw the book at Microsoft. It was an intensely publicized trial, with pretty much all the country hating Microsoft and Bill Gates. Waffling over the word "ask", the infamous "knife the baby" email, the Halloween documents and Embrace-Extend-Extinguish. That all came out as part of the DOJ antitrust suit. It's hard to remember how visceral the hate for this was. During the height of that, The Simpsons decided to portray Bill Gates on the show, not positively [0]. A game developer released a title called "Mi