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Paul Allen's Microsoft Experience

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looking-in-from-outside dept.

theodp writes "Just in case Microsoft bashers don't have enough ammo, Robert X. Cringely has a couple of interesting tales in this week's column. The first explains how Bill Gates used Paul Allen's moonlighting at MITS to justify awarding himself 64% of Microsoft's stock vs. Allen's 36% (and Gates' failure to adjust the shares after he accepted a $10/hour part-time MITS job). The second heart-warming tale concerns a conversation Allen reportedly overheard late one night (as he was finishing up DOS 2.0) between Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing how to get Allen's Microsoft stock back if the Hodgkins disease Allen was battling killed him. Yikes."

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  5. Re:Standing in line at a drive-in window by DocScience4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did it too about five or so years ago when on a business trip in the Midwest (Wendy's.) It was also featured in a recent "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (Jack In The Box), speaking of multi-m/billionaires doing it.

  6. Re:Standing in line at a drive-in window by binford2k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I used to do that quite often -- even better, I did it with a baby stroller!

    My apartment was right next to a taco bell . . and sometimes you just get that craving. Once I got chewed out for doing it, because a cranky manager was there. Technically, it's against their policy to serve anyone not in a car and they are *supposed to* turn you away.