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>It's hard to make a case against Bill Gates being a massive player in the astounding success of personal computing without delving deeply into emotional reason
by nixos 10y ago
>It's hard to make a case against Bill Gates being a massive player in the astounding success of personal computing without delving deeply into emotional reasoning
The only thing he really did was not get in the way of making billions.
If not for MS, other companies would have filled its place (DR-DOS?)
If not for IBM creating and then opening up the PC market?
- oldmanjay 10y agoIf you believe that the only thing Bill Gates did was stay out of the way, you've clearly not read even a cursory survey of the history of computing. It's so dismissive I'm a little agape.