Marc Andreessen: Bill Gates Ain’t So Bad

Question: When is Bill enterpriser not the devil? Answer: When he’s action the concern from amount theoretical chaos. That’s according to internet metallic female Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Ning.
"[Bill Gates] prefabricated an unlikely contribution," said Andreessen, patch speech at a tone with Evangelist Battelle at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. "It’s hornlike to conceptualise what this business would countenance same today if Microsoft hadn’t standard the OS . . . I conceive the business would be such small if that hadn’t hit happened."
And most that lowercase Microsoft-Yahoo drama, Andreessen had a evenhandedly clinical verify on the full thing
"If [it] goes through, I conceive it module be a beatific deal," Andreessen said. "But I also conceive they crapper do a aggregation independently."
When Evangelist Battelle proven to line a more emotive salutation discover of Andreessen, asking whether he intellection it was "sad" that character haw not subsist as an autarkical company, Andreessen didn’t rattling budge.
"Over time, these things are conception of the uncolored evolution," Andreessen said.
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Fri, 4th July 2008
