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The Perfect Strategy to Kill Nets Gape
Mark andreson's memo is worth reading in its entirety to understand the genius of bill gates. He had licensed for microsoft some code for a browse from a little company called spy glass ink, which happened to be located in urbana champagne. The terms of the license actually are that we pay spy glass, you know, a portion of the revenues that we make from distributing this thing. Well, what if we just bundle it into windows and we give it to everybody for free? Oh my god, stone cold killers. There actually ends up being a big lawsuit about this. A spy glass sues micro softness, like, ha, you're giving this away to, like...