[mabhatter]

what has Bill Gates DONE in the TECH industry that deserves sitting in the big chair of the most influential tech company?

Steve Jobs had a comeback Jesus would be jealous of, but he also founded/built up TWO rockstar level companies Pixar and Next Computing in the ten years being kicked out of Apple. Bill Gates is just doing charity work... he's out of the game.

[pigscantfly]

Well, for one thing, he founded it. And to be honest, I'd rather have another billionaire doing philanthropic work than working on another Pixar.