One person can build a $22 billion company (in year 2000 dollars) that sells an ...

throwaway7356 · 2026-09-15T06:51:06 1789455066

I think you miss the most important bits:

- backdoor deals to discourage alternatives, such as moving headquarters to convince people not to use alternatives,

- monopoly abuse,

- active sabotage of alternative software by intentionally triggering false errors if used with competitors' software (DR DOS),

- unleashing Internet Explorer on humanity (which proves that AI can't be that bad if humanity survived that)

You know, the stuff that every philantrope like Gates does all the time.

doc_ick · 2026-09-15T06:06:34 1789452394

Don’t worry, just give them a year and infinite tokens and they can make windows me.

Just have to view their “trust me bro” rating.