A darker twist involves OS/2, IBM’s Windows competitor. By 1990, OS/2 had 10% market share, until its developer, Gordon Letwin, died in a mysterious 1991 bar fight. No hard evidence ties Microsoft to this, but conspiracy buffs note Letwin’s exit from Microsoft in 1993 and OS/2’s rapid decline after. Windows’ 90% OS dominance by 1995 raises eyebrows.
I guess this does raise some questions, yes, but mostly as to the quality of your information.
Looks like he's another blogger trying to farm engagement since the actual board the post links to is literally a duplicate where he's the sole mod and contributer, you know, just like Imp is with his own blog boards.
c/Conspiracies already exists as a board but the OP made c/Conspiracy afterwards so he could curate and control a narrative. However as you've pointed out he's relying on shitty AI spam to do the heavy lifting/typing along with the aforementioned engagement farming since the original thread has all of 5 upvotes since the blog board is dead, so he has to crosspost to places like this.
Okay... let's ignore the hallucination about the bar fight. What's even being implied here? That he was bought off to retire in order to sabotage the project? Well, the product in question was a joint development between IBM and Microsoft. (Grok correctly identifies Letwin as both a Microsoft employee and a OS/2 dev, but leaves out this context in a way that makes it sound confusingly like Letwin had his own side company). Said joint development lasted until 1990, which is another important detail Grok leaves out. It correctly notes—albeit in the aforementioned confusing manner—that Letwin was on the Microsoft side, not the IBM side. He wouldn't have been on the project for about three years by the time he left Microsoft in 1993, so what is the "conspiracy" here?
Your entire post is a shoddy Grok summary that you didn't proofread, complete with some wink wink nudge nudge eyebrows that point at nothing. As Antonio said, there arethings that Microsoft did, but this post only briefly touches on the most famous one.
MS was EXTREMELY anticompetitive in the 80s/90s. Reminds me of an email leak during that time that revealed it was MS strategy to coerce and threaten companies into abandoning competitors like Linux.
Intel, too. They blackmailed vendors into only stocking their processors and not AMD's.
Edit: And they're still doing similar things to this day, e.g. fracturing and hamstringing the OSS community by giving it the Occupy Wallstreet treatment, i.e. push far-left activism to destroy the movement.
Probably…..but BlackRock did that with every industry, so they can push DEI, spyware, the subscription based economy, etc and it cant be avoided because they push it throughout the entire Fortune 500 and beyond. The moment a smaller rival starts gaining steam, offering options Larry Fink and friends don’t want you to have, they buy out that company, or the company ends up publicly traded one day, when BlackRock and their conspirator investment bankers friends buy up so many shares that they can tank that company overnight if the CEO doesn’t cater to their demands.
I guess this does raise some questions, yes, but mostly as to the quality of your information.
Looks like he's another blogger trying to farm engagement since the actual board the post links to is literally a duplicate where he's the sole mod and contributer, you know, just like Imp is with his own blog boards.
c/Conspiracies already exists as a board but the OP made c/Conspiracy afterwards so he could curate and control a narrative. However as you've pointed out he's relying on shitty AI spam to do the heavy lifting/typing along with the aforementioned engagement farming since the original thread has all of 5 upvotes since the blog board is dead, so he has to crosspost to places like this.
User for 5 years. Only 77 posts. Only comments. No communities.
Is this a bot, alt, or a shitposting shill?
He must've gotten better after getting killed in a bar fight. Good for him.
That's an impressive hallucination on Grok's part.
Anyway, what is proven about what Intel and Microsoft have done to destroy competition is enough... you don't need to make stuff up.
How else will we undermine the legitimate information if we don't associate it with insane theories?
What, you don't think his corpse continue to work at Microsoft for 2 years after dying?
Most people don't know about Microsoft's necromancy department.
Microsoft is Wolfram And Hart, confirmed.
If you are interested, you are welcome to contribute.
Bill Gates died in a mysterious plane crash, which put him in the perfect position to lead the world's response to Covid.
Okay... let's ignore the hallucination about the bar fight. What's even being implied here? That he was bought off to retire in order to sabotage the project? Well, the product in question was a joint development between IBM and Microsoft. (Grok correctly identifies Letwin as both a Microsoft employee and a OS/2 dev, but leaves out this context in a way that makes it sound confusingly like Letwin had his own side company). Said joint development lasted until 1990, which is another important detail Grok leaves out. It correctly notes—albeit in the aforementioned confusing manner—that Letwin was on the Microsoft side, not the IBM side. He wouldn't have been on the project for about three years by the time he left Microsoft in 1993, so what is the "conspiracy" here?
Your entire post is a shoddy Grok summary that you didn't proofread, complete with some wink wink nudge nudge eyebrows that point at nothing. As Antonio said, there are things that Microsoft did, but this post only briefly touches on the most famous one.
MS was EXTREMELY anticompetitive in the 80s/90s. Reminds me of an email leak during that time that revealed it was MS strategy to coerce and threaten companies into abandoning competitors like Linux.
Intel, too. They blackmailed vendors into only stocking their processors and not AMD's.
Edit: And they're still doing similar things to this day, e.g. fracturing and hamstringing the OSS community by giving it the Occupy Wallstreet treatment, i.e. push far-left activism to destroy the movement.
It's why we are stuck with the rather awful microsoft word as the default word processor.
libre office for the win. I haven't used Microsoft word since 2008.
I still use wordperfect. It's just annoying always having to convert it to a docx though.
Real chads use LaTeX!
I know. When I got an IBM at that time, I was shocked it had Windows. Before this, computers had their own OS.
I liked Netscape.
Probably…..but BlackRock did that with every industry, so they can push DEI, spyware, the subscription based economy, etc and it cant be avoided because they push it throughout the entire Fortune 500 and beyond. The moment a smaller rival starts gaining steam, offering options Larry Fink and friends don’t want you to have, they buy out that company, or the company ends up publicly traded one day, when BlackRock and their conspirator investment bankers friends buy up so many shares that they can tank that company overnight if the CEO doesn’t cater to their demands.
Yes. Yes, they did.