People alive in the 1980's and 1990's know this. Unfortunately the younger people have been told he is a saint.
Billionaire Paul Allen (cofounder of Microsoft who left partly because of Gates unethical practices) 's book "Idea Man" is very revealing about how Microsoft was operated from the inside.https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Man-Memoir-Cofounder-Microsoft/dp/1591843820
The best book about how Microsoft started and landed the IBM deal is called "Hard Drive".
Paul Allen was a good guy. He was the "Woz" of Microsoft. Largely came up with the ideas that actually were inventive and new. Allen later caught Gates and Steve Balmer trying to cut him out of his stock. Balmer is another scumbag.
Allen did good things with hs money without regard to personal profit. He funded the first private spaceship produced by Burt Rutan who won the xprize and it later became the basis for Virgin Galatic. He also funded ocean recovery efforts for historic artifacts around the world. He also bought the Seattle Seahawks for his home city of Seattle who needed all the help they could get. Lol.
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