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Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies of Cancer At Age 65 (cnbc.com)
CNBC is reporting that Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Vulcan Inc. said in a statement Monday that Allen passed this afternoon in Seattle at the age of 65. From the report: "While most knew Paul Allen as a technologist and philanthropist, for us he was a much-loved brother and uncle, and an exceptional friend. Paul's family and friends were blessed to experience his wit, warmth, his generosity and deep concern," [Paul Allen's sister, Jody Allen] said in a statement. "For all the demands on his schedule, there was always time for family and friends. At this time of loss and grief for us -- and so many others -- we are profoundly grateful for the care and concern he demonstrated every day."
Earlier this month, Allen revealed that he had started treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the same type of cancer he overcame nine years earlier. The longtime CEO left Microsoft when he was first diagnosed with the disease. Allen also ranked among the world's wealthiest individuals. As of Monday afternoon, he ranked 21st on Forbes' list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion. UPDATE: Added a link to a statement from Vulcan Inc. on behalf of the Allen Family and Paul G. Allen network.
Earlier this month, Allen revealed that he had started treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the same type of cancer he overcame nine years earlier. The longtime CEO left Microsoft when he was first diagnosed with the disease. Allen also ranked among the world's wealthiest individuals. As of Monday afternoon, he ranked 21st on Forbes' list of billionaires with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion. UPDATE: Added a link to a statement from Vulcan Inc. on behalf of the Allen Family and Paul G. Allen network.
RIP Paul!
He spent his money is such great and geeky ways, I often thought that if I was that rich I would be living exactly his lifestyle. RIP Paul Allen, you left this world much too early.
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After decades of inflicting cancer on the world's computers, it's his turn.
He got all his mullah and then die, without even care to share some with the open-source movement
Good riddance !!
But I'm sure he had a great time with it while he was still alive.
Now he's living In The Cloud.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Allen had nothing to do with systemd!
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
He ran a monopoly that repeatedly screwed his users and his "philanthropy" was just what super-rich faggots do with their retirement to assuage their guilt before they meet Judgment. He was part of the problem, no hero, no visionary.
Calling him a serious philanthropist is a fucking joke.
Fuck your breathless fawning. I just hope the worms enjoy the compost.
He is now burning in hell for Microsoft and Windows
With a (reported) net worth of $3.1B Trump gets to move up a notch on the list of The World's Billionaires from #766 to #765.
Paul Allen was #44 with $21.7B.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I thought that was one of the Cancers we had beaten?
The present subjunctive mood of "to be" is "were", not "was".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_FlipStart
What the future of mobile computing should have been
The present subjunctive mood of "to be" is "be", not "were".
However, the "past" subjunctive mood of "to be" is "were".
You can't take it with you.
He ran a monopoly
Hey Anonymous Coward, which monopoly did he "run?"
He was co-founder of Microsoft, but he left there over 36 years ago.
Alas Money isn't everything
The book Paul Allen wrote avoids a full report, but gives the impression that Bill Gates was so angry, Paul Allen left the company because interacting with Bill Gates was bad for his health.
Quotes from the book, Idea Man by Paul Allen.
Page 49:
THREE DECADES AFTER teaching Bill and me at Lakeside, Fred Wright was asked what he'd thought about our success with Microsoft. His reply: "It was neat that they got along well enough that the company didn't explode in the first year or two."
Page 96:
When Bill pushed on licensing terms or bad-mouthed the flaky Signetics cards, Ed thought he was insubordinate. You could hear them yelling throughout the plant, and it was quite a spectacle-the burly ex-military officer standing toe to toe with the owlish prodigy about half his weight, neither giving an inch.
Page 177:
Bill was sarcastic, combative, defensive, and contemptuous.
Page 180:
"For Bill, the ground had already begun shifting. At product review meetings, his scathing critiques became a perverse badge of honor. One game was to count how many times Bill confronted a given manager; whoever got tagged for the most "stupidest things " won the contest. "I give my feedback," he grumbled to me, "and it doesn't go anywhere."
That is not at all true. I graduated from high school in 1973 in Seattle and have had many friends that have worked for Microsoft. Allen argued against lying to IBM that they had an operating system and argued for fixing bugs rather than adding features before he was forced out of Microsoft in 1982. Paul Allen was on the side of users.
I never knew him, but I know the effects he had on my world.
I'm a IT professional who cut his teeth on Windows 3.11. Everyone has their issues with how windows work, but you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.
As a sports fan in Washington, he was a person who brought a SuperBowl win to the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks have been run very well and you can see it in the product. You never needed to worry about the franchise in his hands.
I know these might seem like simple statements, but this is how I knew him. And he will be missed.
Yeah he's either mother Theresa or Florence Nightengale, I can't decide which philanthropic fantasy is more realistic. Good point.
Another "famous philanthropist" in the news : https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/411414-trump-denies-offering-1-million-for-warren-dna-test-even-though-he
I wonder what the future of Stratolaunch is unless he provided for further funding in his estate. I'd hope to see it take off at least once - the Spruce Goose minimal viable proof of concept flight if you will.
Sound like a pansy that wouldn't have made his $$$ without Bill Badass Gates and monkeyboy to defy his limpwristedness.
A truly great man.
I'm judgemental, but say he left $1B to various loved ones, why the f didn't he set up charaties and pump his remaining $19B into them? It wasn't like he died suddenly.
Sorry, but I'm under impressed.
See subject: MS gave me skills to have a fairly successful & INTERESTING career programming w/ their toolsets for a quarter century.
My thanks for that, probably wouldn't have happened minus Mr. Allen.
Sorry to hear this.
APK
P.S.=> Oddly/coincidentally/ironically I was watching "The Nineties" last night (watched the entire Tom Hanks series 70's/80's what I call it @ least, he is a big part) past few nights now & saw "The Information Age" part last night with Mr. Gates, Mr. Allen, Steve Jobs last night - now the man's dead (most auspicious)... apk
Despite how I feel about what he helped start, I'm going to do the classy thing and just press "Preview," (and subsequently, "Submit,") at the end of this sentence.
He was also a huge patent troll with his Interval Research. It did a lot of harm to the industry, but so did Microsoft, so I guess that should be expected.
Seattle Seahawks. Ever heard of 'em?
Only football team in the northwest.
Was being patent troll on the side of users? Instead of starting a IP law firm to buy up patents in order to shakedown companies with patent infringement lawsuits, maybe he could have put his money to better use. Of course, its his money so he could do what he wanted with it, but whatever integrity he had in the early days at Microsoft, it abandoned him in his later years. He was just greedy.
Exactly. Why people fawn over people just because they died is mystifying. There are plenty of heros in the computing industry, but he wasn't one of them.
This may make me seem ignorant, but here goes...
I truly am sad for the loss of another life to cancer, and for his family and friends, However, my mind boggles at why someone worth 20 BILLION dollars was not spending almost all of that on cancer research?
May you rest in peace Paul Allen, Thank you for your legacy and what you did give back to the world.
For someone quoting the scriptures, you have a lot to learn about judging other people. Something tells me that Paul Allen wouldn't call you a super middle-class faggot . Or a fucking joke, or hope that worms would devour your body. Based off of what I know about the two of you, which granted isn't that much, it seems like he's a safer bet than you.
repeatedly screwed his users
With an Allen wrench, I presume?
Ezekiel 23:20
What eventually became... Unixware? before becoming the much reviled SCO Unix under the mismanagement of the spectre of Santa Cruz Operations.
If he hadn't gotten sick that first time, maybe linux would have never taken off because Microsoft Xenix with its desktop UI would have dominated both the pleb and geek market in a way the various versions of Windows failed to do, cumulating in the mess known as Windows 10 today.
Allen argued against lying to IBM that they had an operating system and argued for fixing bugs rather than adding features before he was forced out of Microsoft in 1982.
So he opposed all the things that made Microsoft successful. Bill must be glad he pushed him out.
It's all right here on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc3T2i2zmXA
Did he ever have a chance to collect his Social Security?
Your post is a serious be joke. Allen left Microsoft in 1982, and indeed was a true philanthropist. Based on the timing of his departure it is entirely possible he left Microsoft because he saw what Gates was planning to do and wanted no part in it. Paul Allen was the real technological talent at Microsoft, back when it was a decent company that produced a decent product.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
So long, asshole. Money can't help you now.
And promptly created another Monopoly with the funds: ticketmaster
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/11/22/Paul-Allen-agrees-to-buy-Ticketmaster/1313753944400/
Funny how things repeat.
Geee, Gates must be truly powerful if he gave Allen cancer back then.
Monkeyboy? The power of a long-dead email newsletter rears its head. God, I miss NTK.
Rather than what, MCP? That phrase means nothing, unless your "user" includes software developers.
Trump will die in prison, in real life. He's a criminal hundreds of times over, and you're Putin's faggot little bitch knowingly now. Bend over, faggot, daddy Putin wants to slip you some REAL conservatism, traitor.
Sit on a Russian cock if you need something to contain your burning nazi Conservatism, sweetheart, but Trump did claim it and she IS part Indian - https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1051853260309573632/video/1
So you're wrong literally on both points, you dumb bitch lol. #Owned
I guess Trump will welsh on the debt just like all those times he did before, he's a brokedick liar and you're his little bitch toady lol Sexless Clunker.
I am not sure since I have seen this list of 4 before.
I am may be reaching the surfactants of the northern progress. The beer cans seem taller, as in the lore of STALKER for increase of membrane permeability. I have also started avoiding RECTANGLE of GLOW SCREEN, as NETFLIX was scary, dark, and sinister, and didn't want reverse enthalpy even though it is not of gamma decay of beta of tron.
I have completed a second listening of Pike's journey to pole, by rede of listening in my Roboteka.
https://batleg.com/saber/ (once troll of the east)
You can always tell the people who just got lucky in business and have no idea what the fuck is actually going on because they end up buying sports teams.
Rest well, Mr. Allen.
He used to have the nickname "Doctor NetVorkian" because many of the things he invested in promptly tanked in one way or another after his investment. He had a lot of bad luck with his investments.
For those who don't understand the joke, a certain Dr. Kervorkian became notorious for helping ill patients commit suicide.
Sig for hire.
"Guys, come on over, I'm unleashing another monster monopoly!" (Buys Ticketmaster, pays cash) - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-11-23-9311230042-story.html *(At least you didn't try to pretend he's a philanthropist.)
Worms WILL devour my body when I'm dead AND the middle class is effectively dead in this country under Conservative corporate rule, DEAL WITH IT. REALITY, DO YOU LIVE HERE? Allen was no hero!
He ALSO cannot be offended by what I wrote, AS HE IS FUCKING DEAD NOW. I don't GIVE A FUCK what valley of death he walks through or what's going on with him after death, in life he was a rich prick monopolist.
So I forgive your misconception that he deserves my respect now or at any time in his life. And I forgive your naivete in defending the civil politeness of yesteryear AS THIS IS THE FUCKING INTERNET. SHITCOCK!
i don't like much of anything he did, but RIP
ALAN-1 is my user.
I fight for the users.
He bankrolled Dreamworks SKG.
Did they try turning him off and on again? It might just be a routine BSOD.
Eventually known as SCO Unixware... I am pretty sure Allen did a few dickish things over the years that I heard about and then promptly forgot, but as far as Windows is concerned, he could have shaped a whole different Microsoft ecosystem if he'd had his way and Xenix had become the base of Microsoft's post-DOS operating system, possibly as early as the late 80s instead of the mid 90s still booting atop MS-DOS with all the warts that entailed.
Tell Jobs and gang they are missed down here..
Didn't know the dude but, fuck Microsoft and all the goddamn bullshit they foist upon the world
THIS IS THE FUCKING INTERNET. SHITCOCK!
You should get this on a T shirt, maybe put a goatse picture on the back
Doubtful, read up on ticketmaster
“I'm a IT professional who cut his teeth on Windows 3.11. Everyone has their issues with how windows work, but you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.”
I'm a IT professional who cut his teeth on VAX/VMX, DECwindows, Novell Netware and the original Mac and in my professional opinion Win3.11 was a toy. It may be news to you but computing didn't start with Windows 3.11 and the huge influence you speak of is that everyone thinks it's normal for your computer to get compromised by opening an email attachment or clicking on a malicous URL.
And in the original Gates Allen partnership, Gates did of course diddle him out of a fair share, 64% to 36% cause he (Gates) did ‘most of the work on BASIC’. Not that Gates did write BASIC from scratch, as it was a clone of a version he acquired from a DECUS User Group and enhanced quite a bit.
@CohibaVancouver: "He was co-founder of Microsoft, but he left there over 36 years ago"
He was in remission from Hodgkin’s lymphomas for a long time. The story online is that he left Microsoft after he overheard Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing what to do regarding his shares after he died. ref
Took my dad (in less than a year) just a few months ago. It's devastating, particularly when doctors give you reason to hope and run you through chemo and radiation and offer drug trials - and then one day say 'sorry, you need to sign up for hospice care' (which is essentially signing your own death warrant since you are agreeing to not get any more treatment and simply be allowed to die horribly).
Note: I am not urging anybody to not fight such a diagnosis; fight like hell and hope for the best, but be prepared and make sure your family is prepared for the worst (mine was not, we accepted all the happy talk about how curable it was). This disease is still very much a killer. Like all cancers it's not really just a single disease that is the same in all patients but rather is a customized killer tailored to defeat its individual host and therefore the only real hope, I suspect, is in individualized medicine using the patient's own DNA (the very sort of thing "medicare for all" schemes will not be able to cope with).
You can't take it with you, and "the one with the most toys wins" is not true.
I'll not get religious here, as I am no tent preacher and this 'taint the place, but it's a good idea to have your priorities straight. Care for your friends. Love your family. Help a neighbor. Be generous to others, not foolish, but wisely generous.
We're all free to believe that there is nothing after this life, and if that's your thing then good luck with it, but each intelligent person with a functioning brain ought to at least put some serious time into thinking serious thoughts about what he or she believes and WHY. If you belive what you believe on blind faith, then you ought to spend some time thinking about that too and consider that you should consider believeing something else. I'm amazed at the number of geeks I meet who spend more time thinking about some cheap bit of soon-to-be-obsolete tech gear imported from China than they spend thinking about the deeper issues of life. Develop some deeper beliefs, some serious philosophy, and lead a more meaningful life and put some meaning into the lives of others. Even if you do not believe in any deity or afterlife, living as though you do is not a bad way to live. All the junk in your life will eventually be dust and you'll be dead long before that even happens.
It was always obvious it was going to be some very minor amount %, she said as much many times. Trump is the dishonest welshing faggot, not Elizabeth Warren. That's the point. She was vindicated.
"Elizabeth Warren has Native American Blood in the same way Aldolf Hitler has Jewish ancestry." And yet the claim isn't untrue, and is scientifically proven. As Trump did claim to pay 1 million for her to prove it, & DONE.
Write the check you billionaire serial liar lol, or don't - the circumstances make the most "powerful" lying faggot in the Republican party look very, very weak and dishonest - right before he goes off to prison, too. Bad timing.
Honestly Microsoft was never a decent company. They rose to prominence with vendor lock-in and exclusivity contracts on both BASIC and DOS, stealing a certain amount from CP/M, blocking DR DOS....come on you can say Paul Allen became a good guy but you can never say Microsoft was anything in the early days other than a manipulative company offering vendor lockin to PC OEMs.
Don't you mean your great-..-grand father ? Also do families have points of view? Did I miss collectivist world-view 101 and inherited guilt intro course ?
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Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you fucking stupid bastard!
First thing I thought of when I saw this headline.
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Ticketmaster are complete cunts.
This guy owned them? Fuck this guy!!
Jimi Hendrix got screwed out of his music rights which were held by some asshole. Paul paid for the legal fees for the Hendrix family to sue and get his rights back.
Thanks Paul. We'll excuse you while you kiss the sky.
Exactly. Why people fawn over people just because they died is mystifying. There are plenty of heros in the computing industry, but he wasn't one of them.
What is amazing is the stupidity and bullshit attitudes that are rampant on this site.
Meanwhile, over at Macrumors.com (which arguably shouldn't even give a care about Allen's life or death), the comments are universally those of heartfelt condolences.
https://forums.macrumors.com/t...
You small-minded, entitled Slashtards all should be fucking ashamed of yourselves.
DOS was barely a product when Allen left. DR-DOS was still called CP/M. And they certainly weren't the only game in town when it came to BASIC interpreters for microcomputers. Microsoft BASIC was actually a pretty decent product and helped standardize the language somewhat. In the early days, they actually were competing somewhat honestly on a level playing field.