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  2. Bill Gates - Wikipedia

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    In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, [162] and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax , which creates and provides free digital textbooks. [ 165 ]

  3. Software patents and free software - Wikipedia

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    Leading open-source figures and companies [10] have complained that software patents are overly broad and the USPTO should reject most of them. Bill Gates has said "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today".

  4. Charles Simonyi - Wikipedia

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    Charles Simonyi (/ s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n i /; Hungarian: Simonyi Károly, pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj]; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect.. He introduced the graphical user interface to Bill Gates for the first time who later described it as the first of two revolutionary things he felt in his life.

  5. Project Tuva - Wikipedia

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    According to his video introduction, Gates saw the lectures when he was younger. [2] He enjoyed the physics concepts and Feynman's lecturing style, and later acquired the rights to make the video available to the public. He hopes that this will encourage others to make educational content available for free. [3]

  6. Billionaire Bill Gates Has 81% of His $48 Billion Portfolio ...

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    Gates is currently worth $105.8 billion (as of this writing), according to Forbes, making him the 14th richest person in the world today. However, he has vowed to give most of his money to charity ...

  7. Here's Why Bill Gates Was So Much Richer Than Steve Jobs - AOL

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    Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were born the same year. Both dropped out of college. Both started companies with good friends: ... Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days.

  8. Bill Gates explains the keys to his success during Microsoft ...

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    Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates looked at the big picture and the small picture as he was growing his software company in the early years. ... Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000, gave up his day-to ...

  9. An Open Letter to Hobbyists - Wikipedia

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    "An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.