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One of them--and this is a classic story--came in 1980, when he negotiated a deal to license the DOS operating system to IBM for a low $50,000, but had the foresight not transfer the copyright.
"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.
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]
Original scanned as a JPG by Len Shustek. Image was cleaned up and converted to PDF by Swtpc6800 en:User:Swtpc6800 Michael Holley: Author: Bill Gates: Permission (Reusing this file) Bill Gates sent this "Open Letter" to the Homebrew Computer Club and an exact copy was printed in the January 1976 issue of the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter.
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates looked at the big ... he characterized his view of success as "very much Microsoft-centric," describing his life during his 20s as "all Microsoft, all the time ...
"I wanted to have enough money in the bank to pay a year's worth of payroll even if we didn't get any payments coming in, and I'm true to that almost the whole time," he told an interviewer in 1998.
Gates received a $2.5-million advance for his book and money from subsidiary rights sales; [2] all his proceeds were donated to "encourage the use of technology in education administered through the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education," [3] a foundation created by the National Education Association.
Image source: Getty Images. 1. Microsoft: 30%. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that the Trust's largest holding -- by a wide margin -- is Microsoft, the company Gates founded.