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Do you know who made the story that he “went flying”? Yes, Bill Gates.
by achairapart 2y ago
Do you know who made the story that he “went flying”? Yes, Bill Gates.
- CamperBob2 2y agoAFAIK Kildall never denied it. If so, I'd like to see an authoritative source, as opposed to an irrelevant meme.
- achairapart 2y agoI mean Gates made up the infamous apocryphal story that he was flying for fun, careless about IBM and whatnot. Not that he wasn't actually on a plane (coming back from a business meeting). Gates told that story to reporters. That is fact. There's plenty of info on the internet, starting from Kildall' Wikipedia page and its sources. You don't have to dig that hard. I'm sure Gary Kildall had his faults or negligence about the deal gone wrong with IBM. That's a complicated story. But still, he was haunted his whole life by the silly "went flying" story. And that's one thing that Bill Gates did to him.
- lproven 2y ago[Sigh] I keep trying to correct the rampant misinformation and disinformation about this. It's all a matter of record and most of the people are still alive. Yes, Kildall went flying. He went to see an important partner, Bill Godbout, with his employee Tom Rolander. https://scobleizer.blog/2007/08/08/the-rest-of-the-story-behind-microsofts-os-deal-with-ibm/ https://scobleizer.blog/2007/08/08/the-rest-of-the-story-beh... Rolander talks about the flight here: https://youtu.be/Dx89THub510?si=Fco75Iq6Ap2GDfY3&t=1020 https://youtu.be/Dx89THub510?si=Fco75Iq6Ap2GDfY3&t=1020 (17min onwards.) Godbout died quite recently, and is missed in the classic and vintage computer world: he was a big figure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Godbout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Godbout