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With the way you are trying to justify your comments it sems there is a little bit of Gates envy around!! Isn't opportunism the essence of capitalism? and arent those people who make the opportunities considered to be great businessmen?
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Unanswered questions.....  Niffy_z | 07/17/06
The Sign of a great businessman  voska | 07/17/06
Weren't we talking about BillG, MITS BASIC genius?  DannyO_0x98 | 07/17/06
Winners write history  Fandorin | 07/17/06
Marketing software.  Anton Philidor | 07/17/06
Stay on subject  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
Microsoft was his subject.  Anton Philidor | 07/17/06
My first computed experience  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
Roger, ya beat me to it by 4 years! (old codger flashbacks)  whisperycat | 07/17/06
Gates and the British computer industry  jorwell | 07/17/06
I started in 1984, but...  Chris Rijk | 07/17/06
In terms of MBTI  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
iNtuition is the key factor  whisperycat | 07/17/06
Not many NFs  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
Another article addressing this question ...  whisperycat | 07/17/06
Give me a break  marksashton | 07/17/06
Not convinced, Mark  whisperycat | 07/17/06
You're missing the point  marksashton | 07/17/06
Did he or was that just how it turned out  voska | 07/17/06
"Lucky three times in a row..." That's funny  marksashton | 07/17/06
Lucky like that is amazing  voska | 07/17/06
More important whisperycat,  John Zern | 07/17/06
Advance?  tic swayback | 07/17/06
Historical revisionism  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
No  marksashton | 07/17/06
Vision?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
Yes, vision.  Rodney Davis | 07/17/06
Right about IBM  slopoke | 07/17/06
VISION INDEED! HAHAHA!  Mr2560 | 08/14/06
He was lucky and opportunistic  j.m.galvin | 07/17/06
So this led to MS Office?  Rodney Davis | 07/17/06
There you go opening that can of worms again  stevey_d | 07/17/06
But many of these battles...  Rodney Davis | 07/19/06
Yet more proof that many bloggers are not journalists  marksashton | 07/17/06
Let's also not forget...  Rodney Davis | 07/17/06
Where do you GET this stuff?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
I was there...  Rodney Davis | 07/17/06
But so many others failed...  Rodney Davis | 07/17/06
I miss text based Word Processors  Erik Engbrecht | 07/17/06
Gaah revisionism again  stevey_d | 07/17/06
And of course Acorn went down in history as a huge success...  marksashton | 07/17/06
Acorn  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
Make that ARM  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
ARM was Acorn RISC Machine  Chris Rijk | 07/17/06
The StrongARM  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
First low-power CPU!?  Chris Rijk | 07/17/06
Look at it this way  jorwell | 07/17/06
Proto-Gates  Erik Engbrecht | 07/17/06
Agreed  jorwell | 07/17/06
British engineering  Rodney Davis | 07/17/06
But I bet the Beer was warm due to Lucas processors built on license.  osreinstall | 07/17/06
Beer is meant to be warm  jorwell | 07/17/06
Beer is a regional taste.  osreinstall | 07/18/06
I was only joking too  jorwell | 07/18/06
I use to rebuild all types of motorcycles.  osreinstall | 07/18/06
arm cpus are on every bluetooth module. Many set top boxes run Acorn OS  stevey_d | 07/17/06
There's programming and there's programming  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
Lame wrong choice of words. Mea culpa  marksashton | 07/17/06
I guess only he really knows, but does it really matter?  BillyG_n_SC | 07/17/06
What's it matter Murph?  John Zern | 07/17/06
by itself, it doesn't matter  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/17/06
Point taken  John Zern | 07/17/06
I like your attitude Murph. (eom)  BillyG_n_SC | 07/18/06
What is the point of this?  jpr75_z | 07/17/06
The NMBer groans  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
Desperation  zzz1234567890 | 07/17/06
Expectations  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
I couldnt agree with you more  zzz1234567890 | 07/17/06
Slander is spoken  Roger Ramjet | 07/17/06
Yup  voska | 07/17/06
couldnt agree with you more  zzz1234567890 | 07/17/06
Get a dictionary  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
Coding question asked last time around  BrutalTruth | 07/17/06
unanswered questions about programmer  BrutalTruth | 07/17/06
And Walt Disney was a terrible cartoonist...  Anton Philidor | 07/17/06
Depending on who you ask...  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
A cartoon among cartoons.  Anton Philidor | 07/17/06
A different point of view.  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
If benefit follows use...  Anton Philidor | 07/17/06
Read more carefully, Anton  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
All deserve respect  John Zern | 07/17/06
If...  rapson | 07/17/06
Excellent point  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Nah... there are plenty that don't deserve respect,  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
Okay, though if I had to ride on Og's wheel...  Anton Philidor | 07/17/06
that's true  voska | 07/17/06
What is a cartoonist?  jplatt39 | 07/18/06
I think he was both a programmer and entrepreneur.  osreinstall | 07/17/06
I think he was both a dessert topping AND a floorwax (NT)  tic swayback | 07/17/06
I think Murph needs to come up with better material. (NT)  osreinstall | 07/17/06
Yep, it's a pointless article  stevey_d | 07/17/06
Beats me, Bubba.  osreinstall | 07/18/06
If you can get them to believe it  LittleGuy | 07/17/06
You lose all credibility quoting The Register  PB_z | 07/17/06
Primary sources  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
You mean he's not doing Vista coding?  Userama | 07/17/06
Define programmer  LinuxHippie | 07/17/06
Brilliant FUD!!  NonZealot | 07/17/06
I wouldn't call that FUD  voska | 07/17/06
Regrets  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/17/06
Retro-FUD?  tic swayback | 07/17/06
Look at the conclusion to the blog  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Huh?  tic swayback | 07/17/06
But then...  rapson | 07/17/06
On that I agree  tic swayback | 07/17/06
Flamebait  voska | 07/17/06
Yeah, total flamebait  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Read it again tic  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Still don't see the FUD  tic swayback | 07/17/06
tic  NonZealot | 07/17/06
I don't see it either  voska | 07/17/06
NonZealot  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
dave.leigh: FUD  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Ha! And I get called oversensitive!  tic swayback | 07/17/06
NonZealot: Still not FUD  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
Whoah, Hoss!!!  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
Oh please  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Slight correction...  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Correction to your correction  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
Message has been deleted.  NonZealot | 07/17/06
Wonder why my message was deleted?  NonZealot | 07/17/06
I had it deleted  tic swayback | 07/17/06
It was talking about Bill.  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
I thought this email was interesting:  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 07/17/06
Conjecture and sandboxed school of thought...  macroline | 07/17/06
Just thinking...  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
Credit where credit is due  NonZealot | 07/17/06
that's right  michael_t | 07/17/06
Hmm... Had to think on that.  dave.leigh@... | 07/17/06
This article is pathetic....  JoeMama_z | 07/17/06
Agree 100%  ThomasAnderson | 07/17/06
Agreed! U left out 4)  michael_t | 07/17/06
Puzzle me this...  macb | 07/17/06
Does Bill Gates know anything about programming?  ThomasAnderson | 07/17/06
There is medication available  TonyMcS | 07/17/06
Numbers  TonyMcS | 07/17/06
There are some things Humanity is not meant to know.  jplatt39 | 07/17/06
Official: Gates was a programmer  Richard Flude | 07/17/06
Does NOT matter if BG was a good BASIC programmer.... all these  michael_t | 07/17/06
His knowledge of programming led to opportunities  Mark Miller | 07/18/06
Gates, programmer?  stanralph | 07/20/06

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