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ErikJ

(6,335 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2013, 03:42 AM Dec 2013

I said Paul Allen was true founder of Microsoft anyway.

And he was VERY middle class. The "father" of the microcomputer and his partner both true middle class "garage tinkerers" who built it for other middle class garage tinkerers.

Bill Gates was just the soft-ware writing wizard and the guy who eventually built it up. He actually bought the MS-DOS operating system from a San Francisco MIDDLE CLASS software wizard who was too proud to sell out to IBM. Gates "stole" it from Seattle Software for a song, signed with IBM and the rest is history.

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