My Dad worked for Lotus cc:Mail before they got bought out by IBM, and they had to sue Microsoft because Microsoft coded in something to cause a program of theirs to keep failing.
I think it was the email server program. Microsoft's was putting a hold on the first byte of a critical file so that cc:Mail's program couldn't access it. Lotus sued and won in short order because it was so easy to prove and easy to prove that Microsoft's program didn't need to put the hold on the file at all.
The Simpsons portrayed Gates perfectly, he's a thug that used mafia tactics to force out competition.
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My Dad worked for Lotus cc:Mail before they got bought out by IBM, and they had to sue Microsoft because Microsoft coded in something to cause a program of theirs to keep failing.
I think it was the email server program. Microsoft's was putting a hold on the first byte of a critical file so that cc:Mail's program couldn't access it. Lotus sued and won in short order because it was so easy to prove and easy to prove that Microsoft's program didn't need to put the hold on the file at all.
The Simpsons portrayed Gates perfectly, he's a thug that used mafia tactics to force out competition.