Reply #14: "Pirates of Silicon Valley"

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A book and TNT movie that shows the relationship between Gates and Jobs and how Gates dropped the bomb on Apple through outright theft. A documentary I saw also detailed how early on Gates was able to corner the market with his Windows OS by forcing distributors to agree to give Microsoft a percentage on every unit sold - not just units with Windows. So even when Apple and others came up with better products, distributors couldn't put them on the machines because they would have essentially been paying for two operating systems.

He really is a snake, but he's got a great marketing campaign and he does a lot of good with his money. There are very few rich people who didn't either inherit it or acquire it in less than honorable ways.

Incidentally, Gates also converted his wealth to Euros. He knows the dollar is sunk. Too bad the rest of us can't do that.