I have just watched „Pirates of Silicon Valley“ and I am flabbergasted. We all steal ideas from each other. We have for ages and generations. I knew this. But that Bill Gates, formerly richest man in the world (a Mexican industrialist has just surpassed him), has built his entire empire on stolen ideas was new to me. Apparently, Bill Gates didn't come up with the early Microsoft codes. In fact, he went into an IBM meeting empty-handed and re-emerged a rich man. That was his big coup. He only promised IBM that he had the software they needed, then bought the codes from another software developer (the same day?) and made some tweaks and mods. He also stole (borrowed?) ideas from Apple, who seemed happy enough to share them with him, possibly because they had stolen the ideas from Xerox themselves. Why does everyone say he is the ideal son-in-law type? This man is the biggest poker-face in the history of the planet.
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