Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
Bill always suffered from &quot;NIH&quot; (Not Invented Here) Syndrome.<p>Google took something that worked (Linux) and prettied up the User Interface. Apple had pretty much done the same sort of thing earlier with BSD UNIX and OSX. Bill was ideologically opposed to Linux right from the start because it was Open Source.<p>Consequently, Microsoft had to do 10 times the work to achieve success that Google needed to. Google was up and running while Microsoft was still struggling along to get things to work.<p>That&#x27;s probably the main reason that Google dominates smartphones and Microsoft doesn&#x27;t.