That's how Bill Gates managed to keep all the rights to his software made exclusively for the IBM PC: As the story goes, in his negotiation with IBM to build the software for the PC, Bill Gates, using his substantial poker skills, managed to beat IBM out of exclusive rights for the software ... which is total bullshit ... IBM gave the rights to him in a setup. Then on the way home, Bill Gates and crew, stop by a rival software production house (CPM), buy that software for $50,000 and retrofit for IBM PC. Later the CIA, through Alex Brown and Sons, takes the company public ... likely providing "angel funding," think precursor to In-Q-Tel. The end game: CIA has backdoor to all Microsoft software around the world, which means the Rockefelller's have that backdoor.