Breaking the rules is in big tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit
From the young Bill Gates and Paul Allen plundering software companies' garbage bins for source code listings. Gates writing a snotty letter to computer clubs a few years later complaining about software copying, and Ballmer calling Linux a cancer, to Windows having an embedded Linux layer, Microsoft has shown a very variable attitude to intellectual property.
We're now back full circle
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