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On 14/09/2023 9:55 pm, Douglas Miller wrote:
> On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 4:30:39 AM UTC-5, Captain Nemo wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:47:53 -0700 (PDT), Douglas Miller wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 7:55:49 PM UTC-5, dxf wrote:
>>>> Clearly Kildall didn`t have what it takes to be that.
>>>
>>> Correct, Gary was a good software engineer and a good human being.
>> Correct. But a bad businessman.
>
> Only in the sense that he didn`t want to charge exorbitant
prices for lousy product. He wasn`t in it to be the richest man in the
world. I wanted to provide a good product, and needed to charge for it
in order to continue providing a good product. Sounds like the best
kind of businessman to me.
To give Gates his due he was very good at forecasting trends and prepared
to take risks. Seeing the IBM PC on the horizon, he dropped CP/M without
any qualms. PC DOS 1.x - dated as it was - got his foot in the door.
Within 2 years he produced MS-DOS 2.x and never looked back. Even IBM
found itself in the back seat - just another supplier. It`s Gates` name
that was in lights and to whom the world was looking.
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