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To: Duchess47
VERY BARELY conceivable. HIGHLY UNLIKELY.

Their usual SOP tends to be that they approach anyone very successful and 'invite' them to join them. Failing that, they offer to buy the originator out. Failing that, they threaten to kill them and ALL their extended family.

As it was, IBM MADE Gates super wealthy seemingly by choice. That frequently seems to be the case ... some decision is made in a lofty smokey room and it's a done deal.

1,297 posted on 03/27/2018 10:10:22 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: JockoManning

I hate Microsoft and Windows - it’s Skynet in my opinion, but I hope Gates isn’t part of the evil.

I’m not sure why. :/


1,301 posted on 03/27/2018 10:13:04 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: JockoManning

You can’t imagine the magnitude of this.
Constitutional CRISIS.
Twitter coming soon.
GOOG coming soon.
AMAZON coming soon.
MICROSOFT coming soon.
+12

I guess you’re right. Missed that.


1,306 posted on 03/27/2018 10:17:42 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: JockoManning
IBM MADE Gates super wealthy seemingly by choice

The story that IBM let Gates have the license to IBMDOS because of liability issues didn't strike me as logical.

1,386 posted on 03/28/2018 1:41:31 AM PDT by AU72
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