Interesting and important subject. You said however:
"Would society have benefited if Microsoft had to wait until the 21st century to deliver Windows, or something like it?"
I do not understand that statement. I agree that MS may have made a significant contribution to personal computing by imposing a standard of sorts on a very fragmented market. I do not understand why the absence of SW patents would have caused that kind of delay in what MS did. MS certainly would have made a lot less money, but maybe that is all.
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