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To: HerbVic who wrote (9129)3/6/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: Sowbug   of 213173
 
>>Most people think Gates is a genius coder, most don't know he bought Dos. Probably includes Rose.
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Also, most don't know that his MS BASIC was a rip off of BASIC. He did punch it up a bit.

Come to think of it, everything Microsoft has ever offered was bought or ripped off, then punched up a bit and put on display. If anyone can think of anything that Microsoft originated, I would be interested to find out what it is.


Even his story about cornering the market on those campaign buttons when he was a page has been proven to have been factually impossible, and some consider his repeated proffering of that story to be prima facie evidence of his pathological insecurity.
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