This is one of those where I try and put myself in his shoes.
If your business had the opportunity to take the contracts he mentioned, would you? Of course there are those silly things called laws that might get in the way of this business deal, but they may not have been clear at the time (I don't know).
All I know is that Gates leveraged his product against an unknown market and then created barriers of entry for other competitors. Machiavellian, perhaps, but brilliant.
If your business had the opportunity to take the contracts he mentioned, would you? Of course there are those silly things called laws that might get in the way of this business deal, but they may not have been clear at the time (I don't know).
All I know is that Gates leveraged his product against an unknown market and then created barriers of entry for other competitors. Machiavellian, perhaps, but brilliant.