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Yeah well I think it has been proven that Gates was more style than substance and some of the choices he made early in the DOS wars were at the expense of others like Kildall. He was able to take a something that was not technically superior (copied or not) and beat his competition (DOS 6.22 anyone?). So yes he is a "good" capitalist but his 31337 skills are sh!t, he was never a tech genius.

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"So yes he is a "good" capitalist but his 31337 skills are sh!t, he was never a tech genius."

As Microsoft grew larger, his role became much more associated with managing the company at large than with technical mumbo jumbo, but Gates was more technically competent than you think. He co-developed Altair BASIC and (supposedly) FAT, and was well versed in some more CS-heavy stuff, also:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/papers/Bounds%20F...

I even question the BASIC stuff and FAT maybe but I think not, at that point he was more interested in being rich than making something functional. His "contributions" were to take things that people in educational computing had been using and contributing to for the betterment of everyone and package that and sell it to IBM. I think there is more borrowed in DOS than just the Kildall contributions, but it has been whitewashed and forgotten.

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