Gary Arlen Kildall had a PhD and an operating system that only needed to be converted to run on the IBM PC. But Kildall had a PhD and therefor was no match for a pennyless college drop out named Bill Gates
Kildall was defeated and his company distroyed by a guy who dropped out of college and who bought the rights to DOS 1.10 with 50 grand of borrowed money.
You make my point. A man with a PhD and a successful operating system company, could not beat a college drop out who had some creativity left undamaged and a tiny (at the time) start up called Microsoft.
I thought we were talking about creation of advances, not who is better at shady business practices. Dr. Kildall is the one who created the product. Bill Gates is the one who bought and marketed a ripoff of it. Why is the latter supposed to be viewed as the one who has advanced our technology and is so creative?
I also note that you neglected to mention a large trust fund of poor-little-rich-kid Bill Gates.
"Ask Bill why function code 6 (in DOS) ends with a dollar sign . . . . No one in the world knows that but me." --Gary Kildall, PhD