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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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takeda ◴[30 Mar 16 19:39 UTC] No.11392296[source]▶
Surprised I don't see anyone else mentioning this.

This looks to me like typical Microsoft strategy that they utilized a lot 25 years ago.

1. when not leader in given market, make your product fully compatible with competitor

2. start gaining momentum (e.g. why should I use Linux, when on Windows I can run both Linux and Windows applications)

3. once becoming leader break up compatibility

4. rinse and repeat

Happened with MS-DOS, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, and others.

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supertastic ◴[30 Mar 16 22:15 UTC] No.11393449[source]▶
Even more surprised that no one seems to recall that they did exactly this back in the day. There was a version of the NT4 kernel that could run Unix programs. "Great, the program selection of Unix with the stability of windows!" people sneered, but still there was a market for it.
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1. copperx ◴[31 Mar 16 06:34 UTC] No.11395391[source]▶
They even marketed NT's POSIX compliance as a great feature.