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.

Ot raised the question whether Microsoft was always a "made" company and chosen by the elites to become the defacto standard and thats why it got all the press and became the defacto standard.

I now realize no press is grassroots. Only chosen people or companies get any press at all.

He isn't Biden. He's not so easily "replaced". He's behind 90% of what he pushes. He's effectively an arm or a leg of the beast. He's a creator.

Gates came from a very well connected family, getting a chance to be the front of one of these money and state secret laundering companies. Similar to Zuck selling the DARPA Lifelog project, or Bezos getting access to a military logistics program or Google using the search algorithms of the Library of Congress, all propped up by In-Q-Tel money from the CIA drugs business. Bill sold software for small computers, developed for the military elsewhere. The legend is that he and Paul Allan developed their first BASIC compiler for a computer they hadn't access to by using an emulator, and when they got the first try on the real machine, it ran perfectly - everybody involved in programming knows that that is impossible. Gates is the front for Warren Buffet, and nobody knows whose front Buffet is (Buffet plays the role of a harmless old man better than Soros).