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I thought he was wrongly attacked for his Windows with that Monopoly wrap.
While he ran around the world playing a do gooder philanthropist that gives a shit on TV.
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Seriously, I don't get all the adulation.
Certainly, Gates made a lot of money and sure, his first thousand Microsoft employees all became millionaires but that's being a shrewd businessman, making the starting 1K have a full stake in the outcome.
Regardless, I never saw people talk about John D Rockefeller as a genius, tech visionary, nor humanitarian.
In contrast, people are saying that Gates is one of the greatest men, for giving away his wealth for the betterment of humanity but I say, he's just an egotist who's using his foundation as both, a tax sheltered hedge fund (as his billions of dollars of equity then don't go through the probate system), as well as a platform for people to speak highly of him, giving himself a title of nobility of sorts.
The Czar...
He just started a medical school and let them cure all kinds of diseases on their own.
Gates is an egomaniac and wants to be hands on the whole time.
criticized by unaccomplished and ungrateful people.
No one here has criticized Rockefeller either.
Do people know what got computers into the workplace? They ran spreadsheets.
The Amiga was vastly superior not only to the first Macs, but any IBM product. Unfortunately it's marketing was botched.
Here we go again. The guy has earned billion and given billion to charity and just because he is not a right winger , he is getting criticized by unaccomplished and ungrateful people. No one here has criticized Rockefeller either.
Right on man. I remember the school being like "WOW, look at these Apple IIe's, kids" around 1990. With my C64 running on an old 13" Color TV, I was like "Where's the color? Where's the sound?" How can I get this thing to play "Animal" by Def Leppard? Despite being 500% more expensive, the damned thing could only go "Beep" or "Chirp".
How about a trip down memory lane?
The Amiga was vastly superior not only to the first Macs, but any IBM product.
I still have a Video Toaster equipped Amiga 2000, and a Commodore SX-64. I remember back in the day a guy I know had an Amiga 3000, and he used to show it off by running 3 windows at the same time, one window with Microsoft Windows 3.0, One window with a MacOS, and one window with AmigaOS. Not bad for 1993 or so.
Here we go again. The guy has earned billion and given billion to charity and just because he is not a right winger , he is getting criticized by unaccomplished and ungrateful people. No one here has criticized Rockefeller either.
IE killed Netscape, because Microsoft gave it away until Netscape died.Microsoft also made sure that Netscape couldn't get Win95 specs from the beta program and that Win95 was incompatible with Netscape.
Bill Gates got that money by systematically eliminating market-based competition in tech,
IE killed Netscape, because Microsoft gave it away until Netscape died.
Word killed Wordstar, because Microsoft gave it away until Wordstart died.
Excel killed Visicalc, because Microsoft gave it away until Visicalc died.
and many more...
Nothing but extremely unethical business practices which set technology back decades at least. VC's wouldn't even fund tech which competed with Microsoft until the anti-trust trials against MS started.
Patrick saysIE killed Netscape, because Microsoft gave it away until Netscape died.
Word killed Wordstar, because Microsoft gave it away until Wordstart died.
Excel killed Visicalc, because Microsoft gave it away until Visicalc died.
and many more...
Nothing but extremely unethical business practices which set technology back decades at least. VC's wouldn't even fund tech which competed with Microsoft until the anti-trust trials against MS started.
Come on, this was during a time that "Freeware" was rampant. Jasc PaintShop Pro didn't kill off Adobe.
Microsoft was successful because they had standard, that no software company could use their "Made for Windows" logo unless they conformed.
We could use that standard today. All software designed for Windows was intuitive. If you knew Windows nomenclature, and did not intuitively know how to navigate around in a new softw...
Create the non existent disease, establish draconian policy, and then claim credit for fixing the problem which was non-existent in the first place.
Gates is a bubble boy corporate psychopath. Couldn't change his stripes if he wanted to
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Seriously, I don't get all the adulation.
Certainly, Gates made a lot of money and sure, his first thousand Microsoft employees all became millionaires but that's being a shrewd businessman, making the starting 1K have a full stake in the outcome.
Regardless, I never saw people talk about John D Rockefeller as a genius, tech visionary, nor humanitarian.
In contrast, people are saying that Gates is one of the greatest men, for giving away his wealth for the betterment of humanity but I say, he's just an egotist who's using his foundation as both, a tax sheltered hedge fund (as his billions of dollars of equity then don't go through the probate system), as well as a platform for people to speak highly of him, giving himself a title of nobility of sorts.
The Czar of International Health Care (plus Vaccinations).
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So what's the Real Politik of William Gates III?
The story of Microsoft is that his mother helped him broker the deal with IBM, which got MS-DOS onto every shipped PC. And MS-DOS, itself, was bought from some Seattle firm for $50K.
Let's contrast that to an actual software (not re-packaging) billionaire, one that I model myself after.
Larry Ellison, clearly a playboy/party animal (and not the stereotype of an engineering nerd), did more programming than Gates, on both the mainframe and minicomputers, during his IT career prior to starting Relational Software (changed to Oracle) and afterwards, up until version 2 where he transitioned into a CEO type, selling his vision while letting others do the work.