One of the greatest Americans of his time, Gates saw opportunity and plunged headlong into hard work. Neither Gates nor his company ever requested any assistance from the government (unlike Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle for instance) and on his own made himself the richest man in the world on nothing but purely voluntary transactions.
Plenty on Free Republic hate his company, products, and some even the man himself, but they are irrelevant. The man is a monumental hero to those who assign that title to those who truly deserve it.
If anyone alive has earned a permanent vacation, it is Bill Gates.
and on his own made himself the richest man in the world on nothing but purely voluntary transactions. Well, that and a bit of extortion.
You a big George Soros fan too?