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soft is by far the largest software company in the world. It has a market capitalization of twenty-three billion dollars--more than General Motors, Xerox, or I.B.M. To what extent Gates is mainly a product of I.B.M.'s blunder, and therefore a kind of historical accident, and to what extent he is the f
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a n
ir owners began to do the same thing with Micro-sort's basic. Then, in February of 1976, Gates published "An Open `Z.:. Letter to Hobbyists" in the Altair newsletter, and the letter now stands as a sort of Magna •;; Carta of the software industry--the underpinning of the intellectual--property structur
osoft is by far the largest software company in the world. It has a market capitalization of twenty-three billion dollars--more than General Motors, Xerox, or I.B.M. To what extent Gates is mainly a product of I.B.M.'s blunder, and therefore a kind of historical accident, and to what extent he is the f
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
osoft is by far the largest software company in the world. It has a market capitalization of twenty-three billion dollars--more than General Motors, Xerox, or I.B.M. To what extent Gates is mainly a product of I.B.M.'s blunder, and therefore a kind of historical accident, and to what extent he is the f
llen said. "It's going to happen! I told you this was going to happen! And we're going to miss it!" They called Ed Roberts, the man who created the Altair, and told him that they had written a version of a programming language called basic for his computer. That wasn't true. It was an early use of a no
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