Ian Betteridge on Nostr: Similarly, IBM could have bought Microsoft - Gates even offered them 10% of the ...
Similarly, IBM could have bought Microsoft - Gates even offered them 10% of the business and they could easily have afforded more. In the environment of the past 20 years, where big companies are allowed to buy pretty much anyone, they would have. Back then antitrust concerns made it a nonstarter.
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