alt Hacker NewsI wish Gary was one of the people that the average joe associated with "people who are known for doing computer things", instead of only people such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
His accomplishments cannot be overstated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall#Recognition
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fortran77 • today at 12:34 AM
Everyone knows Gary Kildall. You're not the only one.
77pt77 • yesterday at 5:01 PM
> instead of only people such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
At least gates could program...
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He was brilliant, but he was not a predator, which is always part of the problem. We know names like Gates and Jobs because they stepped on the shoulders of others and ate anyone who stood in their way alive. History remembers the victors.
That should automatically tell us we shouldn't trust them, and yet fandoms and followings abound.