[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Ian Hilliard spake thusly:
>> amicus_curious wrote:
>
>>>> http://www.technewsworld.com/story/57946.html#9658053938283903337
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The same story with Google. Bill Gates, on the other hand, just
>>>> came from a very wealthy family and found corruption/deceit to be
>>>> a powerful tool, not Linux.
>>> Of course that must be the explanation. That is all it would take,
>>> eh?
>>
>> Add to that a certain amount of luck, his mother's contacts and his
>> father's ability to twist a contract so that the other party doesn't
>> realize that they have been had, until it is too late.
>
> As with most things in business, it's not what you know, but who. The
> foundations of Corporatism is corruption.
>
Didn't Bill Gates steal basic from Dec or someone? I forget the
details, but he did nick it, as far as I recall. Of course, this was
before the days of MSDOS, but it does show how he intended to do
business.
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