God bless you Bill Gates - and good luck to you.
I agree. Gates has created more jobs and wealth than any single living human being.
Try Isabel la Catolica de Castille or Marcus Licinus Crassus.
Adusted into today's dollars, Gates wouldn't even make the top 100. He's got quite a bit in the bank for himself, but in terms of creating wealth for others he'd be way behind John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan or Friedrich Weyerhauser.
Do try to remember that Gates only got the contract to provide the OS for the IBM PC because Gary Kildall was out flying his plane. Well, that and a bit of fraud on Gates' part.
William H. Gates III. Kicked out of Harvard for theft, he's become the most successful snake oil salesman in history. If he was as a good a programmer as he has been at his two true vocations, dirty tricks and marketing, Microsoft wouldn't cost U.S. businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost revenue due to spam, viruses and worms.
His stepping down is probably a good thing for Microsoft. Whether it's a good thing for the U.S. remains to be seen.
Considering that his politics are about the same as George Soros, I'm continually surprised at how many Freepers sing his praises.
Now that's he retiring from overseeing the building of Big Brother into the next version of Windows, he's free to help his father, Warren Buffet, Ted Turner and the other left-wing billionaire collectivist pigs make the world safe for "Transnational Progressivism," or as it's otherwise known, international socialism.