It seems that Tod Neilson shared the same viewpoint:
With the Microsoft tools, it was never a simple matter of profit and loss. I could get Bill [Gates] to fund anything I wanted when I told him that every copy of VB sold would result in 20 more copies of Windows," he said.
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