• Rhaedas
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      106 months ago

      IBM is how he got into the PC infrastructure via licensing. He saw what the execs didn’t, that anyone could build hardware but what ran on it controlled the world. And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand. Which if true says even more about the IBM execs who agreed to something sight unseen.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        26 months ago

        And I don’t know how true it is, but my understanding is that Gates was so shrewd he bet on getting that agreement before he even had the software in hand.

        That’s not being “shrewd;” that’s just not giving a fuck about screwing over other people if your bet doesn’t work out.