[swagtricker]

1 - Correction: writing late, typo - BASIC should have been property of the US tax payers.

2 - It was still pretty novel back then, but "borrowing" computer time w/o paying for it is (and was) theft of services. Like sneaking into a movie theater without paying. It wasn't their hardware to use, it was a critical part of a commercial endeavor. They didn't have permission in advance to use it. They didn't murder someone, but they were a couple of spoilt brats who figured they could get rich by ripping people off. They ripped off SCP (next point) and they screwed over IBM & Digital Equipment Corp. with the OS/2 gaslighting & NT intellectual property theft (case settled out of court).

3 - Gates wired up the deal with IBM then "bought" 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products knowing very well it was going to be worth millions since people were waiting for IBM to release a PC at the time. SCP made less than a million dollars and had it drawn out in court (from that same article - "Microsoft paid SCP US$925,000 and reclaimed its license for DOS"). He saw an opportunity to play middle man and then shanked SCP.

[DoesntMatter22]

3 - What is wrong with that exactly? You make it like he ran a scam.

Him playing the middle man happens all the time. Nothing illegal about that.

[swagtricker]

Here's 2min & 57 seconds that sums it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfgRf2A0Tc

Bill & Balmer didn't even have an agreement with Seattle Computer Products when they pitched it to IBM. They waltzed in, lied & said they HAD IT and they could SELL IT knowing it could go into millions of computers. Then, they bought it for chump change from SCP. SCP was a tiny nothing of a company.

It's like finding a homeless guy with a stamp collection & buying his Inverted Jenny for $1,000 USD knowing damn well it's worth over $1.5M USD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny). Is it illegal? No. Is it greedy and cruel for no good reason? Absolutely. Did it help SCP? Sure. Just like it helps the homeless guy to have a thousand dollars while you keep $1.5M simply because you could take advantage of him and there was nothing he could do about it.

Again. Gates is a liar and a thief. It's probably damn lucky for him Epstein "hung himself" in that jail cell. Otherwise, we'd probably have proof a few more choice names to call him as well.

[DoesntMatter22]

So they bought something for chump change, legally. So your complaint is that they promised it and then had to find a way to get it. Which they did. They didn't violate anything.

So you admit Gates did nothing legally wrong, it just offends you that SCP didn't make as much as you personally feel is valid.

You seem to dislike Bill Gates to an extreme degree to where you find the fact that he did something that is completely legal, and happens in nearly every business, to be abhorent.