“You could have been Bill Gates...”
And he was damn lucky to have NOT been Bill Gates. The only upside to being Bill Gates for him (as he was already loaded), would have been the ability to buy Facebook and other left wing media outlets and clean them up, as Musk did with Twitter.
...but it’s unlikely that would have been a priority with him.
My understanding of the story was that IBM because it was such a large company had a standard non-disclosure agreement that said we are a big company, we are not liable for anything you disclose. You have no recourse if we develop a similar product.
On advice of his general council for DRI Gary would not sign the non-non-disclosure agreement and IBM packed up and left.
If you were sent out to a business trip to Monterey CA would you be upset if you had to stay a couple of extra days on the Company dime?
Also Dr. Kildall was not some Harvard drop out, he was a professor at the Naval Post Graduate School. They would have made accomodations for him he he was delayed fro some reason.
Microsoft has turned its Windows platform into a “toy” operating system with Windows 11.