Winners, losers & Microsoft
by S. J. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis · first published 1999
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There's plenty of evidence that Netscape, for example, was a bad business and made countless mistakes, and that Microsoft did not compete unfairly under the rules. See, for example, Winners, Losers and Microsoft by Liebowitz and Margolis or Trust on Trial by Richard McKenzie. Re Chinese workers, denial of concrete evidence is a good way to show you lost the argument. Also, that you are desperately short of common…
on “Bill Gates: My Plan to Improve Our World, and How You Can Help” ↗The strength of path dependence and network effects in the economy is overrated, see the book "Winners, Losers, and Microsoft", http://www.amazon.com/Winners-Losers-Microsoft-Stan-Liebowit... , for a pretty thorough discussion.
on “Andy Tanenbaum hasn't learned anything ” ↗I can give you the names of a handful of books that might be useful. Some are more technical, some less so. Some are more about personalities, some about the business aspects of things, some more about the actual technology. I don't really have time to try and categorize them all, so here's a big dump of the ones I have and/or am familiar with that seem at least somewhat related. The Mythical Man
on “Ask HN: Material on early computing history and innovation?” ↗…you google on authors names and dvorak, there are several arguments against the paper, I don't think they are particularly convincing, but they are interesting. The much enlarged version is the book "Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology" http://www.amazon.com/Winners-Losers-Microsoft-Competition-I...
Maybe not perfect matches, but a few titles I'm familiar with that you might like: Dreaming in Code - covers Mitch Kapor's post Lotus effort to build Chandler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming_in_Code Everyone Else Must Fail - all about Larry Ellison and Oracle https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Else-Must-Fail-Unvarnished/d... Winners, Losers & Microsoft - title says it all https://www.am
on “Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companies/people?” ↗