That's what Harvard thought when they expelled him.
Of course now, Harvard love$ him.
In the original book, which is the basis of the movie, Gates is confirmed to have said “geniuses steal”.
Even the Windows process where you point the cursor on the desktop was XEROX. The XEROX people deserves what they got because they were so arrogant to say “oh these people from MS wont steal this..”
But the XEROX people kept explaining to Gates how it worked. Idiots.