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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (25649)	2/1/2005 10:18:38 AM
From: stevenallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

For all of his shortcomings, I wouldn't underestimate Gate's business acumen - he was a "pioneer" in making widespread use of paying employees with options, and of contracting out major sections of projects (to avoid paying benefits as well as high wages). He clearly has a taste for money and knows how to play with it.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (25649)	2/1/2005 2:11:58 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I am the last defender of Bill Gates, especially his ethics. However, the comment about the 64k is simply a low blow. If he made the comment at all, he would have made it in the mid seventies (as a 20 year old) while writing the MS Basic interpreter. However, I doubt it as he had extensively played earlier in a timesharing environment on a PDP-10 which supported 256 Kwords (1152 KB). In addition, anybody familiar with Basic soon gets confronted with memory issues and as computer geeks, I am sure they were looking at other architectures but the 8080 and therefore were well aware that Virtual Memory was already in widespread use on mainframes.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (25649)	2/1/2005 2:23:06 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 110194

Bill Gates position is likely related to his close friend Warren Buffet earlier comments. The guy who is OVER-rated and clueless is Paul Allen the "undeserving Billionaire". He helped start MSFT but left for health reason will Bill really got MSFT rolling. Paul then collected billions for what others at Msft did.