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Unanswered questions: Bill Gates, programmer?

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Fandorin 17th Jul 2006

I have no first hand experience of Microsoft. However, the most useful article I have seen on Bill Gates is posted here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

I tend to believe the accuracy of this article. It illustrates that Bill Gates had enough technical knowledge - and let's be clear here raw IQ - that he could 'motivate' people to work beyond their natural inclinations.

So why all the 'Bill's a programmer stuff'? Most people want to rationalise success. They don?t care if it is accurate, just so long as it fits.

Msoft Marketing obviously want this to happen, because to them it could be great branding. But they can't promote the bottom line: "Bill's success is based on the fact that he scares the sh@t out of people".

So the geek idea was pushed (which was attractive for a whole host of reasons), and once again the winners got to write history.