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Re: The Key to Mark Shuttleworth's Success Was Linux

Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> amicus_curious wrote:
> 
>> You are suggesting that IBM would not have contacted Microsoft but for Bill 
>> Gates' mother?  That is an urban legend in the computer world that is 
>> totally without any basis in fact. I am surprised at your naivety.  What 
>> twisted contract do you reference?
> 
> "IBM came to Microsoft, because Bill Gates Mom (Mary Gates) and IBM's 
> executive (Akers) were both in a charity together (United Way?), and 
> Mary said that IBM should check out what her son had to offer. Before 
> you knew it, the little rogue unit in IBM creating the PC was told to 
> give "Mary's boy Bill" a call -- and soon after the DOS deal was signed. 
> Microsoft did get the contract, and Microsoft did convince them to do a 
> royalty thing"
> 
> http://www.mackido.com/History/PiratesOfSiliconValley.html
> http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/mits0026.asp
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates
> 

Don't hit billwg with facts, he hates that...

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