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"...the computer industry that he helped start?"

nfordzdn 9th Aug 2010

The personal computer industry owes its existence mainly to two huge business mistakes made by IBM:
1. They didn't think the PC was ever going to be anything, so they made it "open source", thus standardizing the hardware (for all practical purposes).
2. For the same reason, IBM didn't bother to create/buy the o/s for the PC. Instead, Bill Gates bought DOS from another programmer and turned around and sold IBM on letting Gates be the provider of the o/s for the PC.

In the 30 years that have followed, Gates has consistently put out poorly designed, buggy software, despite having more money than God and millions of beta testers with which one would expect that they should have been able to attain the highest levels of design and essentially bug-free software.