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Paul Allen on Gates, Microsoft

April 17, 2011 5:17 PM

Lesley Stahl speaks to Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen in his first interview about his upcoming book in which he criticizes his Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates.

Paul Allen and the birth of the PC, Microsoft

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by WriteIdea April 23, 2011 8:24 PM EDT
Microsoft kills its wounded--at least they used to. I became sick while working at MS and had an experience similar to Paul's. Thanks, Paul, for stepping up and telling it like it is.
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by jabberjabber April 21, 2011 10:25 AM EDT
Here's a little insight into the world of big business: lawyers have nothing to do with choosing the software that gets licensed by the corporation. Lawyers may look over the terms and language of a licensing contract, but why would IBM with its army of lawyers choose the one guy in the crowd that has a clear conflict of interest?

And you're bashing him on a demo program for BASIC? Seriously?
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by Sky017 April 19, 2011 11:15 PM EDT
So why doesn't Allen highlight that TIM PATTERSON of Seattle Computer Products wrote MS-DOS?

Microsoft bought MS-DOS from Tim Patterson for $50,000.

Bill Gates' father was a lawyer working for IBM and undoubtedly he influenced the deal in which IBM licensed MS-DOS.

If it wasn't for help from Bill Gates' lawyer father, things may have turned out far less glamourously.

P.S. Gates genius? And going through dumpsters looking for code on which to COPY stuff? Ha! What kind of genius writes the demo BASIC language program DONKEY.BAS, which is atrocious.
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