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BillGates is the founder of MicrosoftCorporation and a multi-billionaire. He lives in a $40 million mansion, and has a wife and three kids. You do not have to hate BillGates to love Linux, just avoid keeping pictures of him in your wallet. Although you could be forgiven if it's [this one | http://www.zpub.com/un/bill/pie.html].

Despite a widely cited quotation that ''640K of memory should be enough for anybody'' being attributed to him, it appears [he never actually said that | http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,1484,00.html].

His first big break came when him and friend Paul Allen wrote a [BASIC] interpreter for the first personal computer, the Altair.  Microsoft then was contracted to write an operating system for [IBM].  They licensed the operating system that later became [MS-DOS].  From there we got MicrosoftWindows, MicrosoftOffice and eventually the Department of Justice case against them.

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