He was never a "nobody who made it big", he is from a fancy family, his dad was some sort of multimillionaire businessman too, thats why he dropped out of Harvard instead of a regular person school.
One thing I always hated about Gates was that bullshit rags to riches story he pushed back in the 90s. Gates' daddy was the CEO of Planned Parenthood and a multi-millionaire. This whole "I sold my calculator to start M$" bullshit is just that. Bullshit. Bill Gates never invented anything. He stole everything he sold. His entire life is a Family Guy cutaway.
Go watch some of his early interviews. He makes it sound like he was poor as fuck until M$ hit it big.
Microsoft's original product, was simply a product he bought called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating system) and then licensed to IBM.
Microsoft was known for cloning other people's technology (LDAP became "Active Directory") and then using their monopoly position to force everyone to use it.
The original startup sound for Windows XP was made with a cracked (pirated) copy of Sony Sound Forge as well, proving that their BSA bullying of businesses (pay up for the unlicensed windows or else) was kind of silly as their own engineers were ripping off Sony's software.
I could write a book on how evil and shitty Microsoft are.
The BSA is a fucking joke. I worked for a company back in the day that was rampant with copied versions of Windows and Office. I think they had like 100 legit for a company of 2000 users, and this was back in 2000. We had a falling out because the IT manager was a fuckhead and I got something better. I called BSA several times telling them the place was a case study in stealing shit. NOTHING came of it. The BSA is basically a lawyer front for M$ anyway.
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Go watch some of his early interviews. He makes it sound like he was poor as fuck until M$ hit it big.
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Microsoft was known for cloning other people's technology (LDAP became "Active Directory") and then using their monopoly position to force everyone to use it.
The original startup sound for Windows XP was made with a cracked (pirated) copy of Sony Sound Forge as well, proving that their BSA bullying of businesses (pay up for the unlicensed windows or else) was kind of silly as their own engineers were ripping off Sony's software.
I could write a book on how evil and shitty Microsoft are.
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infact his whole "success" is shrouded in kikery https://leekwire.com/v/v/7191
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His family likely had access to unlimited capital.