Gates Through Rose Colored Glasses

I call bullshit. These are unprovable assertions based on purely imaginative history. The web has proven that cooperation and standards can emerge from billions of diverse voices. If anything TCP/IP probably had as much to do with where we’re at today as anything. Computers were just expensive word processors until the Web emerged. Most of the utility of modern day computing lies in the Web which Gates completely didn’t see and tried to hold back.

Bill Gates was smart and exploited every opportunity that he could. However, it’s just as easy to make the argument that the industry is still trying to recover from they way he ruthlessly exploited Microsoft’s scale. It’s fine to recognize Mr. Gates’ actual achievements, but spare us the grandiose drivel.