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Re: the Bill is overdue (off topic)

Chris Horton wrote:

Bill Gates is fantastically rich and powerful because he half stumbled
half
got pushed

John asked:

Pushed??? Who pushed him?


As I got it from "The Hackers", IBM approached Gates with a request that he
provide an operating system for the PC. Gates declined the first time and
had to be prodded.

BTW we should consider the possibility that things might have gone worse for
the consumers if IBM had not carelessly given away the high ground in the PC
industry. IBM was one stodgy, arrogant company in those days.

Chris Horton