Oh, sorry, he did pay $50,000 for it, didn’t he? It’s not his fault that his partner was a moron...
It wasn't his partner. That wouldn't be a big surprise. Besides, anyone dumb enough to partner with Bill Gates III deserves what he gets. Rather, Billy defrauded a complete stranger of billions.
Billy Gates III sold an OS to IBM. It was just an oversight that he didn't actually have an OS to sell them. But when your mommy is on the board of directors of The United Way and sits right next to one John Opel, the chairman of IBM, well, little things like fraud can be overlooked.
So little Billy, borrowing money from dear old dad, an "intellectual property" lawyer, bought a non-exclusive license to QDOS from Seattle Computing and hired someone to port it to the IBM PC. When it worked, Gates, in violation of the licensing agreement, "forgot" to tell Seattle Computing about the deal with IBM and bought the rest of QDOS.
Later, Seattle Computing sued Microsoft and won to the tune of $1,000,000.
“Oh, sorry, he did pay $50,000 for it, didn’t he? “
So why lie and say he stole it? Such immaturity is as much stealing a man’s reputation as you falsely claimed Bill stole the OS. Grow up and stop being an angry idiot.