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Gary Kildall, for one. Anyone subject to NSA surveillance via Skype, Hotmail, Outlook.com etc. MSFT was the first company to participate in PRISM.
by patrickg_zill 12y ago
Gary Kildall, for one.
Anyone subject to NSA surveillance via Skype, Hotmail, Outlook.com etc. MSFT was the first company to participate in PRISM.
- rasz_pl 12y ago>Gary Kildall, for one. That would be Bill Gates mother. She was buddy buddy with IBM CEO and she was the one convincing them to go with Microsoft.
- tim333 12y agoI was curious about who Kildall was so I read the Wikipedia entry. Seems tl;dr when IBM wanted an OS Kildall was to busy to meet up and then charged $240 each for his CP/M-86 while Gates shipped a compatible PC-DOS for $40. Unsurprisingly Gates won the market. Kildall still ended up a multimillionaire who flew his own Learjet. However he became an alcoholic and died from a fall in a bar. Dunno if it's accurate to say Gates destroyed his life. His main problems seems self inflicted.