alt Hacker NewsGates never even made DOS. He bought it from someone else and rebranded it. He's been a con man since day 1.
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edm0nd • last Friday at 7:17 PM
Still the only big tech CEO who can jump over a chair tho
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Gates never even made DOS. He bought it from someone else and rebranded it. He's been a con man since day 1.
Still the only big tech CEO who can jump over a chair tho
. . . being a savvy businessman is a con man? There's loads to criticize about MS in the 80s and 90s, but buying DOS fair and square and then building an ecosystem around it was just a good business move. The stuff they got sued and almost broken up over is the sketchy part.