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they were trying to make a windows alternative since microsoft was using their leverage w windows to make corel lose money and courts were doing little more than slapping microsoft on the wrist for doing it.
Yeah, Bill Gates destroyed a lot of other companies with his OS monopoly, Dbase (Access) and Lotus 1 2 3 (Excel)...
and now he's a "philanthropist"
emphasis on the quotes since he's put his wealth into a charity; like most of the utlra wealth do; to avoid taxes so now he's legally required to spent 5% of it in philanthropy.
I find it reminiscent to what Valve is doing with SteamOS and Proton today. That is, establishing a viable alternative to MS Windows through using Wine/Proton in order to not be reliant on a competitor for running their software.
Just keep in mind that value can lock you in any day. Steam is proprietary after all.
We don't need wildly successful companies. We need options and completion