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Yup. All the 'origin stories'how how a plucky nerd revolutionized tech was all fabricated fantasy. Gates esp was pusjed by his mother being high up in Oregon? And just gave some huicy govt cobtrscts to get him started. And hia family is side by side with Rockefellers amd are also eugenicists. He didnt switch to mass murder by jabs by accident after his tech life, it was merely the stepping stone to allow the switch.
You're right, but the Gates story is a little off. He grew up in Westchester County, NY near Armonk, IBM world headquarters. His parents hobnobbed with the execs there. Mom got Billy, a student in Seattle at the time, the gig of supplying the OS for the then being developed IBM PC. She supplied him with the money to buy QDOS (Quick & Dirty Operating System) from some hackers in Seattle for resale to IBM.
Since IBM was a hardware company, the geniuses running the place thought renting would be a better idea! After rebranding it Disk Operating System, they gave Gates his first check while at the same time handing him Microsoft's first product. Essentially creating a monopoly from the get go.
Thanks. I never reqlly paid attention to his early background until recently that he came out as Dr Evil and realized he was deeply connected to a lot of other Evil.