[oi-dev] Bill Gates is a typical rogue ..

[Andrew Stormont]

Say what you like about Bill Gates, but his business sense was/is undeniable.  As for the other claims, I guess you never heard of Xerox?

> On 2 Jun 2018, at 13:12, Arhipkin Ilya <ilya at arhipkin.com> wrote:
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> Bill Gates is a typical rogue ..
> ALL THE SOVIET SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS RETURNED TO THE WEST.
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> Bill Gates's mom was chairman of the executive committee at United Way International, along with two very influential heads of the monster of the IBM International Business Machines Corporation, John Opel and John Akers (John Opel, president since 1981, then John Akers, president with 1985). They decided to "help the boy to rise" (look at the death of the genius's mother in The New York Times), and at the same time earn money.
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> In an unknown company Microsoft received an offer from IT giant IBM to develop an operating system for the first personal computer.
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> Of course, as in the case of BASIC, Gates did not develop his OS. He just bought for $ 50,000 a QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) system, created by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products (SCP), changed the name to MS-DOS and sold the license to use IBM, asking to retain Microsoft's copyright .
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> And IBM agreed! (surprisingly, is not it?) She bought a license for MS-DOS and signed an unusual agreement for that time, under which Microsoft continues to be the owner of the system and IBM pays them every time she sells a computer with MS-DOS installed.
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> Well, where is the genius of Bill Gates? Who would he be without the links of the pope among lawyers and mom in the environment of business sharks? And where is the "Cinderella" who achieved everything solely with his own brains?
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> In this magical story there is one more point missing: All this was stolen in the USSR through the KGB, formalized in the West under the guise of Microsoft, but it did not work out for ourselves! For the development of the system had to call programmers of the USSR-Russia.
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> The KGB sold everything at the stage of experimental designs - secret and secret development of our research institutes and design bureaus. They did it all the time. And what happened to unclassified developments? In general, the horror!
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> Gorokhov Arseniy Anatolievich, in 1968 (8 years before the PC from Apple) creates a personal computer and receives a patent for it!
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> According to the drawings, there was a monitor, a separate system unit with a hard disk, a device for solving stand-alone tasks and personal communication with the computer (today the server), the motherboard, memory, video card and others, with the exception of a computer mouse.
> The invention was patented, but they did not give money for the prototype, they asked to wait. The simple Soviet engineer failed to get the necessary 80,000 rubles. He took up new projects, and the great discovery remained on paper.
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> On the WikiLeaks website, sensational information was published, which was almost immediately blocked by the US special services. According to published data, the Internet was invented by the Soviet inventor Afanasy Zaitsev in 1964 ...
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> This happened in all areas of science and technology.
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