Comment by MrTonyD

Well to talk about this more would take the conversation in a completely different direction. Bill met with Steve Jobs and they divided the market by including and removing technical features. Similarly, they met with the various workstation vendors and mini vendors and agreed to add or remove features to create "effective monopolies" based on product differentiation. It can't be proven in a court of law, and it was agreements between top executives who would cancel or undermine internal development projects. Like networking, office software, hardware included -- the decision to support types of programs was negotiated. I worked for direct reports of three of the executives involved at different times (SCO, Steve, Bill) and heard the same stories - as projects were cancelled or competitors products were purchased/killed in exchanges which often also involved offshore transfers between "competing" executives. I'm always hesitant to say these things on HN, since people here always insist on proof - when those involved went far out of their way to insure that no proof exists.