Re: Bill Gate$. -- MIDRANGE-L

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>         The only ideas Bill Gates came up with were to purchase or rip off 
>other
> peoples great ideas. Gates didn't code DOS for IBM, he bought it for $50K
> outright then "leased" it IBM on a per machine basis. MS-DOS evolved by
> buying or stealing other coders enhancements to the original product. As
> Microsoft evolved, most small development companies dreamed of having MS
> knock on the door to buy their firm. Other firms that wished to remain
> independent ended up having their idea stolen anyway (ie: Stac compression).

And Bills not even good at stealing it. I think it was DOS version 4.1 had to be
recalled 'cause it was found by the courts to contain code exactly as written by
another firm.

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