Most are too young to know. Most today just know him as some super rich guy who was a computer genius and then gave all his money to charity. That's what he tells them and so Thats what they believe.
They don't know Microsoft was convicted in a huge court trial or that gates said the internet would never be important or that he never wrote any software except a traffic program or that the core of Microsoft DOS was dishonestly purchased from someone else and resold to IBM as theirs or the many other things.
Most people today weren't alive then. They don't know.
Even his first product, Micro Soft BASIC was stolen. Gates found the listing on a paper tape discarded in a dumpster outside the university computer dept. He and Allen stole computer time, very expensive in the '70s, to cross-compile it into Intel 8080 machine code to sell it to the nascent hobbyist market. With a complete lack of self-awareness, Gates went into a rage and published an intemperate screed against software piracy when he discovered that the hobbyists were sharing his stolen BASIC freely amongst themselves.
Software was fre and gates said it should be sold.
Gates later created software patents which were virtually unheard of an universally thought of a a misuse of patents and used them to try to stop linux.
One of his new companies is one of the largest patent trolls on the world.
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