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I have said before that Bill Gates is a greedy psychopath.
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HanzHenry
reply to post by Eryiedes
the top notch supreme level hitmen only charge between 50-100k for a clean hit.
Up to 1 million (max) for a public job of a high profile target.
When you consider this, there is NO way to ever know. Was some underling of Gates "showing initiative"?
Possibly. When people will kill someone over a pair of sneakers, then without a doubt these piles of !#$!$ like Gates Daddy the Euenics grand old man. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Why do people respect Bill Gates anyway? Didn't he steal the ideas from a college roommate and use his RICH BOY connects to "make it all happen"?
bobs_uruncle
Allegedly he borrowed the money from his father to buy the original OS from two guys I think were in Berkeley. It was a sure deal, he had the OS pre-sold. Or call it flipped to IBM. Gates license to IBM however was non-exclusive so he copped 2 million on daddy's borrowed 150k and then continued to produce media in direct competition with IBMDOS.
AthlonSavage
reply to post by Eryiedes
can you identify some operating systems which are not infected with NSA malware?
schuyler
bobs_uruncle
Allegedly he borrowed the money from his father to buy the original OS from two guys I think were in Berkeley. It was a sure deal, he had the OS pre-sold. Or call it flipped to IBM. Gates license to IBM however was non-exclusive so he copped 2 million on daddy's borrowed 150k and then continued to produce media in direct competition with IBMDOS.
Allegedly, indeed. Microsoft bought Seattle DOS (also called QDOS for "Quick and Dirty Operating System") for a total of $75K ($25K initially, then another $50K) from Tim Paterson and Rod Brock, owner of SCP (Seattle Computer Products). The deal was brokered by Paul Allen. It's worth noting that QDOS was a knock off of CP/M, an 8-bit OS. many of the commands were exactly the same. Gary Kildall was "working on" CP/M-86 for 16 bit operating systems, but was late, which prompted Brock and Paterson to design their own "quick and dirty" OS so they could have one to sell with their own computer. A competent attorney back in 1980 could have sued SCP for infringement of CP/M. Whether Microsoft got the money from Gate's Dad I don't know, but this the first I've heard about that. Microsoft was already doing very well and hardly needed such a small infusion of cash. The story sounds improbable to me.
Microsoft bought QDOS as a non-exclusive license allowing SCP the right to sell the operating system along with a CPU, meaning hardware meaning a computer. However, SCP interpreted this to mean "hardware = a single CPU" so they sold Seattle-DOS in a box with a single CPU chip legally, circumventing the agreement on a technicality. Ironically, this same tactic has been used to sell individual copies of Windows. I have a copy of XP that came with a piece of hardware for a computer I built myself, not even a CPU but a connecting wire, that fulfilled the requirement to ship Windows "with hardware."
This is almost the same deal that Microsoft brokered with IBM, allowing Microsoft to sell "IBM-DOS" separately as "MS-DOS," one of the best deals in business history, but hardly unique. The fact is Microsoft bought QDOS legally. If they did get the money from Gates' Dad, that isn't illegal, and it certainly was not an amazing amount of money. If you insist that Microsoft "ripped off" SCP, then SCP "ripped off" CP/M, clearly. But, then, Steve Wozniak "ripped off" HP, Steve Jobs "ripped off" Xerox, and Samsung "ripped off" Apple. It's a long chain that the courts have already gone over.
AthlonSavage
reply to post by Eryiedes
can you identify some operating systems which are not infected with NSA malware?
eg how about Linux?