He's not the richest man on the planet. The owner of IKEA is the richest
man on the planet and Bill is only #2.
An earlier post had some wires crossed. Bill Gates sold DOS to IBM for its
first PC in 1980, but what many are unaware of, DOS was not Gates' idea. He
bought the product elsewhere and resold it to IBM. Windows was not his
either. I "borrowed" that one from Apple.
73
Rick
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[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dave LeDuc
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:36 PM
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Subject: RE: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
He is the richest man on the planet. He certainly must be doing something
wrong.
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[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of William Mahaffey
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
Your point being?
> Well bill, if you had Mr. Gates billions of bucks, you
probably really
> would
> not care that someone was waiting for you to have an
'original thought'.
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
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> From: "William Mahaffey" <w6eet@cox.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:59 PM
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>
>
> >
>
>
> The history of gates/microsoft/ibm is certainly not as
> described. I'm still waiting for an original thought to
> come from microsoft.
>
> bill w6eet
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