[OT] Linda McQuaig on Bill Gates

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On 03/22/2011 08:18 PM, James Knott wrote:
> Thomas Milne wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Stephen<stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> On 11-03-22 07:35 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
>>>> I've been reading The Trouble with Billionaires by Linda McQuaig and
>>>> she includes a section on Bill Gates. I had never read any of the
>>>> history of Bill Gates and CP/M and Gary Kildall. Definitely a story
>>>> worth looking up, I can't believe how much of Bill Gates' success is
>>>> based on the work of others. Pretty much _all_ of it. According to
>>>> McQuaig, under todays copyright and patent rules, Gates would have had
>>>> a very different experience.
>>> Has Microsoft ever been innovative?
>>>
>>> Once you get past the paper clip, Bob, and the blue screen of death,
>>> it is
>>> pretty tough to credit Microsoft with any innovation at all.
>>>
>> Exactly, I knew he had been accused of being a thief, but I had no
>> idea how far back it went. From day one his is a story of privilege
>> and luck. He even went to what was probably the first school in the
>> world that had its own PC...his hand was held every step of the way by
>> his mommy and her connections.
>>
> Did she mention how he used the Harvard computers to develop BASIC for
> the Altair 8800, even though those computers were not supposed to be
> used for commercial purposes? Or how he used to dumpster dive for code
> written by others.

I also heard that he tore the labels off mattresses, jaywalked, and 
mixed colours with whites in the wash.
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