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...which rely on market power rather than market merit is amusing. I would like to ask: Does Microsoft truly possess a monopoly because its products are far and away the top in their field, or is it instead because of the chance licensing of the DOS operating system by IBM for the PC, which led to a massive install base for Windows and all its descendants? The writer continually uses Microsoft's favorite word, "innovation," without realizing that Microsoft's gifts lie not in original thinking or research and development but instead assimilation and adaptation of technologies to the Windows...
TIME: But you also used your monopoly to bully others, such as Compaq and IBM...
Gates: That doesn't reflect the reality of what went on. IBM licensed Windows at a very, very competitive price. There were tons of choices for consumers...
TIME: But didn't you hold up licensing Windows to IBM at one point to pressure them...
...months, we have not seen a business plan for a conventional packaged software application." Sounds surprising, perhaps, but how else could a single student from Helsinki hobble together a few thousand lines of code that turned into Linux, an operating system with millions of users currently being shipped on IBM and Compaq PC's? The only real barriers to entry in the operating systems market are a mind, a modem and, arguably, a garage...