This information was originally published on a blog that has long ceased to exist and I was not going to republish it. However, after some publications on a given topic in “these your Internet” and on Habré, I decided to present a more logical version of events. And the reader himself will figure out what looks more like the truth.
Let's get started. Bill Gates. Scandals, intrigues, investigations.
I have always been interested in the beginning of great things. Who, how, when and under what circumstances drove, as they say, the first nail.
And this article is about the very beginning of the beginning of Bill Gates' long journey, which does not need additional introduction.
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"Mary Gates, a prominent Seattle businesswoman who helped her son, William H. Gates 3d, get the contract that led to a lucrative relationship with I.B.M. for his fledgling Microsoft Corporation, died at her home early today."
*"Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed with John R. Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation, the business that I.B.M. was doing with Microsoft.
Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.
The success of the I.B.M. P C gave Microsoft and its MS-DOS (for Microsoft Disk Operating System) a lift that eventually made it the world's largest software company for personal computers. Sales now exceed $3 billion.
Mrs. Gates's father, Willard Maxwell, was a vice president of Pacific National Bank, which later became First Interstate. Her husband, William H. Gates Jr., is a lawyer in Seattle."*
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"Why Big Blue stooped to little Microsoft, Malone suggests, is explained by the fact that Gates' mother, Mary, sat on the board of the United Way of America alongside IBM Chairman John Opel. After two meetings held under promises of confidentiality, IBM offered a hardware and software consulting deal. It wanted rights to a desktop operating system for a small sum; Gates was willing to oblige--on condition that he be given rights to sell copies to other computer makers for whatever the traffic would bear".
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