That must be why hardly anyone uses Word Perfect and young people never even heard of it.
I'll let you have your OPINION even though it is way off the reality scale when it comes to the topic.
Would breaking up GIANT CORPS like goggle, MS, fb etc help make America great again
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That must be why hardly anyone uses Word Perfect and young people never even heard of it.
I'll let you have your OPINION even though it is way off the reality scale when it comes to the topic.
You think MS won because they were first with a suit? Lotus had an office suite long before Microsoft. Why didn't Lotus win? You're wrong about who had the first suite, and you're wrong about the value of having the first suite. Don't you feel stupid? You should stand next to Truth Deflection so you can look smart by comparison, who thinks MS did win on quality. MS didn't win by being first or best.
Besides, there was a number of office suites while most people were still using stand-alone products.
That must be why hardly anyone uses Word Perfect and young people never even heard of it.
I'll let you have your OPINION even though it is way off the reality scale when it comes to the topic.
Its also what i did for a living the last 40 years.
Just curious, have you ever used word perfect ?
As regards the OP, i do not favor govt interfereing with business. But as government had a hand in making the monster then they probably do need to clean up after their puppy.
But since tech is viewed as a political tool government cannot be trusted in this matter.
Perhaps the best solution is free enterprize.
Make a better mousetrap, one that does not have inherant bias. Then see if the public beats a path to their door.
They both were introduced in 1997 lotus was not as extensive.
I did; probably 20 years ago? I loved MS Word when it came out. Easier to use; great formatting and it matched the same structure of MS Excel so you didn't have to pull out manuals and pay for training to use it.
What monster did they create? I don't recall the government having a hand in the creation and success of MS, Facebook or Google.
Lotus came out with an office suite in 1985. Your argument is stupid, but if I don't correct you, you won't realize how utterly wrong you are.
You are so fcking stupid, Truth Deflector. You think monopolies lead to goods and services. Like, nothing's better than the public no having viable options to Facebook? Like, there's nothing better than few to no one investing much in creating social media alternatives.
Not every patent promotes progress of science and useful arts. Some -- you fcking moron -- actually work against progress of science and useful arts. Those bad patents include mechanisms to inhibit interopteration.
MS was born from the worst business decision IBM ever made. Letting Gates keep MS/,DOS. Govt was very interested in computers and shrinking them.
FB & Gooogle (etal) born of...
A personal computers aka MS
B the interwebs which were born of the Pentagon
FB was just an extention of the discussion portions of the early internet and search engines were also dreamed up there.
IBM was under the boot of a consent decree. Antitrust laws had teeth back then, unlike the toothless laws today. They made their "worst" decision to keep government regulators happy. But, yes, a bad decision. They gave away the OS when they should have given away the hardware instead. But, I have 20/20 hindsight.
And, now it's time to gut IP protections that are used to lock out competition by monopoly powers.
Nonesense.
IBM had never given away rights to products developed for it. They did not believe in personal computing because they wanted to sell big iron. They guessed wrong and threatened their own existance by doing so.
They are a hardware company.
MS is as well. Every new generation of their software demands a hardware upgrade to work. They stole thos idea from IBM.
You're a fcking moron, thinking IBM gave away the PC OS just because "they wanted to sell big iron."