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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview
“We didn’t want to have that intellectual property, other arguments, but there were people then, that was important.”
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…Yeah, and the old world IBM would’ve accrued that platform benefit. Did they see the— Well they were selling a lot of computers and making profit also. They would’ve been making more profit than we were at the time just the way pricing worked. There was a little twisty in here though I should throw at you if you’re curious. These things had something called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), which was the lowest, lowest layer firmware, first level software built into the hardware. IBM had its own BIOS, and some applications became BIOS-dependent. Then the question is, who was going to do an IBM-compatible BIOS? We weren’t going to get into that game. We didn’t want to have that intellectual property, other arguments, but there were people then, that was important. Compaq ultimately became the big company.…
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