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More like a 90s BASF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NQuMr45xd4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJHPpsb3FzM

We don't make the MBA/OSX/Chrome you use to write this comment - we make the chair you sit on possible.

Remember what it was like back in the 80s before there were chairs?

Those DEC VT100's were awfully hard to sit on.

There is a difference between saying "chairs wouldn't exist without Microsoft" and "Microsoft had a hand in making possible the chair you currently sit in". To be clear, I'm making the second argument - that there is a disproportionate amount of vitriol directed at Microsoft (and even in this thread) given the role that it has played in enabling human advancement.

Microsoft: making chairs cheaper for 30 years. =]

Were chair prices spiraling out of control before DOS was released? Something like 40% of office furniture is made by american prisoners, and I have a feeling they're not using Windows while making it. Paying workers <$0.15 an hour is what is making chairs cheaper.

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