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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
22 Sept 2021 Acquired Standard Oil Part I
“Microsoft basically ended up monopolizing the entire industry because IBM was like, well, wait a minute whether we're putting Windows on these machines or not we're paying for it.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 22 Sept 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Standard Oil Part I
Transcript context
…Yes, I do. The deal that Microsoft cut with, I think it was IBM, was yeah, you guys can use Windows and that's great. Any computers that have a CPU in them that isn’t running Windows, you're also going to pay us for those CPUs. That's the deal they signed. Microsoft basically ended up monopolizing the entire industry because IBM was like, well, wait a minute whether we're putting Windows on these machines or not we're paying for it. I think Windows is. Actually, I don't know if it was Windows yet, it might have been DOS. If only Gates, [...], Jeff Raikes, and all the like, if they'd had our episodes here on Standard Oil, they'll listen to before they put that stuff in writing, history could have been different.…
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