Reply to post: Pay? That's so Ballmerish

'$5bn for Slack?! I refuse to pay!' You don't pay – and that's its biggest problem

Mikel

Pay? That's so Ballmerish

"In my day - and we were quite successful - we didn't pay. We adopted their USP features into our own products, poisoned our OS so their app wouldn't reliably run, and stole their users. Paying is for losers." - Bill

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