[MrTonyD]

Well, a lot of the stuff I really only tell friends. And even then I've had people tell me that I'm wrong (eg. they read all the books about Los Alamos - so they think they know the whole story even though it is top secret.) And there are Steve Jobs stories that really can't be repeated (involving his family and really unbelievable things.) Another example: Steve and Bill and Scott and Larry would meet to divide up the computer market. Bill & Steve broke their networking so that UNIX could have back office, Scott broke front office so that Bill could keep that, Steve got schools and DTP, Bill killed SQLServer features, Larry killed the low cost linux hardware project. Basically, we have been working in a rigged system our entire lives - with effective monopolies in all the profitable segments.

[daven11]

I find that one hard to believe - I can't believe Bill would open himself up to cartel laws, the others however :-) Though that would explain a few things

[MrTonyD]

Bill and Steve would meet in a plane flying over the ocean - in order to prevent anyone else being involved and to prevent any monitoring. And, in general, these deals made them very rich, so the only people who could betray them had both made a lot of money and been involved in illegal activities themselves. Kind of hard to see much risk in something that is completely deniable. If I hadn't spoken to people with direct knowledge of these things, I wouldn't know it myself. I'm not sure what it would take to get people to admit to their involvement.