William H. Gates 111 before Microsoft

.. Information Sciences Inc. hired them to program a payroll program ..

.. Gates and Allen's next project involved starting another company
entirely on their own, Traf-O-Data. They produced a small computer
which was used to help measure traffic flow. From the project they
grossed around $20,000 ..

.. the administration offered him a job computerizing the school's
scheduling system ..

.. The defense contractor TRW .. offered Gates and Allen jobs .. and
it was there that Allen and Gates first started talking seriously about
forming their own software company [Wallace, 1992, p. 49-51] ...

Nov 28 2004
http://tinyurl.com/99acs
http://web.archive.org/web/20041128085033/http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html
- unquote -

Luck for bill that Digital didn't patent any source or derivative
rights on the PDP-10 else Microsoft would have never got off the ground.

Daeron wrote:
William H. Gates 111 before Microsoft

.. Information Sciences Inc. hired them to program a payroll program ..

.. Gates and Allen's next project involved starting another company
entirely on their own, Traf-O-Data. They produced a small computer
which was used to help measure traffic flow. From the project they
grossed around $20,000 ..

.. the administration offered him a job computerizing the school's
scheduling system ..

.. The defense contractor TRW .. offered Gates and Allen jobs .. and
it was there that Allen and Gates first started talking seriously about
forming their own software company [Wallace, 1992, p. 49-51] ...

Nov 28 2004
http://tinyurl.com/99acs
http://web.archive.org/web/20041128085033/http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html
- unquote -

Luck for bill that Digital didn't patent any source or derivative
rights on the PDP-10 else Microsoft would have never got off the ground.


Why do people spend so much time discussing these idiots.

Hardly "idiots", John. Extremely effective entrepreneurs.

Hardly "idiots", John. Extremely effective entrepreneurs.

billwg wrote:

Hardly "idiots", John. Extremely effective entrepreneurs.

When does having your Mom wrangle a contract from IBM make you an
'entreprenuer'?

I would call them 'inheritors' -- nothing more.

You can call them what you want, John, but that is not as compelling as what

I don't know any specifics, but I am sure that IBM provided hundreds if
not tens of thousands of $20K sized contracts to other companies in the
same
timeframe as the contract for PC-DOS. Where are these companies today?
As to Ms Gates influence on the process, I think that has been shown to be
pretty much of an urban legend. It is popular with the anti-MS crowd in
their never ending petty attempts to denegrate Gates' success, but doesn't
appear to be very true.

billwg wrote:

I don't know any specifics, but I am sure that IBM provided hundreds if
not tens of thousands of $20K sized contracts to other companies in the
same
timeframe as the contract for PC-DOS. Where are these companies today?
As to Ms Gates influence on the process, I think that has been shown to
be
pretty much of an urban legend. It is popular with the anti-MS crowd in
their never ending petty attempts to denegrate Gates' success, but
doesn't
appear to be very true.


Drink up, billwg. Drink up:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/

I'll accept your surrender, John! Better luck next time.

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billwg wrote:


I don't know any specifics, but I am sure that IBM provided hundreds if
not tens of thousands of $20K sized contracts to other companies in the
same
timeframe as the contract for PC-DOS. Where are these companies today?
As to Ms Gates influence on the process, I think that has been shown to
be
pretty much of an urban legend. It is popular with the anti-MS crowd in
their never ending petty attempts to denegrate Gates' success, but
doesn't
appear to be very true.


Drink up, billwg. Drink up:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/


I'll accept your surrender, John! Better luck next time.

billwg wrote:
jabailo@texeme.com> wrote in message
news:saKdnana36eRQzPfRVn-iw@speakeasy.net...

billwg wrote:


I don't know any specifics, but I am sure that IBM provided hundreds if
not tens of thousands of $20K sized contracts to other companies in the
same
timeframe as the contract for PC-DOS. Where are these companies today?
As to Ms Gates influence on the process, I think that has been shown to
be
pretty much of an urban legend. It is popular with the anti-MS crowd in
their never ending petty attempts to denegrate Gates' success, but
doesn't
appear to be very true.


Drink up, billwg. Drink up:

http://www.kraftfoods.com/koolaid/


I'll accept your surrender, John! Better luck next time.

Nice gainsay.

But it doesn't change the facts.

Well the facts are that you put up some nonsense about KoolAid instead of a

They are /inheritors/ not /entreprenuers/.

Sure, John, sure! $274B market cap all inherited from a rich daddy. Why is

That fact that they have to pay you to troll this newsgroup and make their
case even at this level is tribute to the pitifulness of Microsoft.

Do you really believe that? If you do, there is little hope for you! You

mallloc wrote:
snip
Its about Gates throwing a tantum because IBM has the temerity to put
SmartSuite and OS/2 on the IBM PC. Which could correctly be described as
belonging to IBM as it was them who hired Microsoft to write an OS for
the IBM PC in the first place.

snip

Right. And where would Microsoft be now if IBM had said to them, "Okay, we
don't want your steenkin' ripoff platform anyway! We'll use OS/2 and
Smartsuite, and fsck you and the horse you rode in on!"

The DOJ's theory of the case was that IBM could not make that threat since

Right. And where would Microsoft be now if IBM had said to them, "Okay, we
don't want your steenkin' ripoff platform anyway! We'll use OS/2 and
Smartsuite, and fsck you and the horse you rode in on!"