Antitrust - Microsop

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i'm not saying that i'm any better than him. I have made lots of stupid mistakes. I just don't claim that i should be the unelected permanent social mediazar for three billion people, which i think is a job that should require a higher bar thana,. Apropos that the he whalt happend with microsopt. The real story starts with i b m, who had been, sort of, you know, kneeling on the chest of the american tex sector along with 18 t for half a century and went through its own antitrust ordeal.

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