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Did Microsoft & Google collude to destroy all US competition related to consoles, browsers & search, and OS, to control US? (scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by Conspirologist 1 year ago by Conspirologist +60 / -0
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– LibertyPrimeWasRight 10 points 1 year ago +10 / -0

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.

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