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Bringing Up Bill
theodp writes "Over at the WSJ, Bill Gates Sr. describes what it took to turn an unruly 12-year-old into Microsoft's founder and the world's richest man. This included throwing a glass of cold water in the boy's face when he was having a particularly heated argument with his mother at the dinner table. 'He was nasty,' says Libby Armintrout, Bill's younger sister. 'I'm at war with my parents over who is in control,' Bill Gates recalls telling a therapist, who told his parents that their son would ultimately win the battle for independence, and their best course of action was to ease up on him. The rest, as they say, is history. The accompanying Gates Family Album is also worth a look."
Ya, mod me down, i cant help it that i despise the man and doing it wont change my mind.
Mod you down? Hardly! I wholeheartedly agree with your take on that sick twerp.
OS's were set to become huge regardless of who happened to be at the switch. There was a requirement for them, a vacuum in the world which needed filling, and so here we are. That we happened to get a power-mad creep at the front of the parade is just bad luck. (Though, in a game which is heavily biased toward psychotic jerks rising to the top, chances are if it wasn't him, it would have been somebody like him.)
-FL