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netcan on May 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Microsoft bought Skype

I think you're too focused on looking at it from a technical perspective. I think what erikpukinskis is referring to is "hardware-agnostic software platform" as a business model/industry environment.

Maybe IBM did invent that, but it was accidental. I'm not sure they did though, I think MS did.

joe_the_user on May 18, 2011 [–]

If you said "based on standardized, commodity hardware-based" instead of "hardware agnostic", I'd agree.

I mean java was an effort to hardware agnostic. Windows, not-so-much. It supports versions of the "PC Standard". That's it.

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