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Originally posted by BRISK
Are you aware of how DOS became the standard OS? Luck.
If it wasn't for DOS becoming the standard OS, Microsoft would never have had the chance to become what it is today.
It wasn't Gates' brilliance that orchistrated DOS becoming that standard. It was luck that IBMs original deal to licence CP/M from Digital Research didn't work out and IBM came looking around for another OS. Gates has admitted that he wasn't even originally interested in providing an OS to IBM when they first came looking for one.
Opportunity fell into his lap, it's not like he planned it. Please explain the brilliance in this?
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There is no such thing as luck.
If you think one or even 10 "lucky" breaks can make a man become the richest man in the world for decades and can allow him to control the OS, office, browser, and countless other software markets in a hypercompetitive industry competing against the likes of Jobs, Ellison, etc, then you are a fucking idiot.
