> Why are we even comparing programmers to Bill Gates ? He was an a business owner, an entrepreneur. He was a highly skilled programmer and entrepreneur. > Th

> Why are we even comparing programmers to Bill Gates ? He was an a business owner, an entrepreneur. He was a highly skilled programmer and entrepreneur. > The world doesn't lack highly skilled entrepreneurs who take a lot of risk. Erm, what? It absolutely does. > Gates, besides being very talented, was extremely lucky - being at the right school at the right time, having a mom at the board of directors of the largest computer company in the world(IBM), and having IBM make the worst business decision probably ever - feeling that there won't be much money in the operating-system - so licensing it out. Yes, my point exactly. He was both lucky and talented and hard-working. There were tens of thousands of kids as well off as him and more, who didn't amount to a hundredth of his success.