[Knitebane]

ew remember he told IBM to shove it, and he went on to build an empire.

Sounds wonderful. Too bad it's more like:

remember he entered into a contract with IBM to build their next generation OS, then after IBM had sunk millions of dollars into OS/2, stole a lot of stuff and ran, eventually giving the world Windows NT.

[Cobra64]

I remember his brief relationship with IBM in the late 1970s. That's when he told IBM to stuff it.