The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:04AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

theodp writes "BusinessWeek discusses They Made America, a new book which claims Bill Gates got the rewards due Gary Kildall. The book attacks the reputations of key early PC era players - Gates, IBM, and QDOS programmer Tim Paterson - asserting that Paterson copied parts of Kildall's CP/M and that IBM tricked Kildall, allowing Gates to prevail and depriving Kildall of untold riches and credit for a seminal role in the PC revolution. Some material came from an unpublished memoir penned by Kildall after the University of Washington, where Kildall earned a PhD, picked Harvard dropout Gates as keynote speaker for the 25th anniversary of its CS program."

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Re:Wrong person by duffahtolla · 2004-10-19 02:26 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Dont give me the "he was a legacy" shit either - Harvard doesn't take morons.
Excuse me Bill, but didn't George Bush get an MBA from Harvard?
Killdal killed himself by im_thatoneguy · 2004-10-19 11:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The history is clear, IBM offered it to killdall, he wasn't willing to sign contracts signing his soul to IBM, microsoft pounced on an oprotunity. "tricked" please. Not to mention I don't think Kildall had what it took to wrecklessly fight his way to the top of the market.