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Rin
2021 Jun 30, 6:14pm
Rin
2021 Jun 30, 6:14pm
Ceffer says
Yes, as a partier, Gates is totally lame against the likes of a Larry Ellison.
Rin saysIn other words, Gates was similar to Ellison in terms of partying
I'm disappointed.
Yes, as a partier, Gates is totally lame against the likes of a Larry Ellison.
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KgK one
2021 Jul 2, 8:45am
Bill gates been investing lot on vaccines. I wonder if he will bundle vaccine with MS product like office. Free vaccine with office purchase. Or vice versa.
Once all your files n health are on Microsoft then upgrades , membership, n booster shot will be extra. Wink wink.
Once all your files n health are on Microsoft then upgrades , membership, n booster shot will be extra. Wink wink.
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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.