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Originally posted by Wizzo
This may be the stupiest thing ever written on GFY...
He may have had some lucky breaks, but no one "lucks" into the position Gates is in today.....Period!
Plus, it takes a brilliant mind to sieze lucky breaks...
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Are you aware of how DOS became the standard OS? Luck.
If it wasn't for DOS becoming the standard OS, Microsoft would never have had the chance to become what it is today.
It wasn't Gates' brilliance that orchistrated DOS becoming that standard. It was luck that IBMs original deal to licence CP/M from Digital Research didn't work out and IBM came looking around for another OS. Gates has admitted that he wasn't even originally interested in providing an OS to IBM when they first came looking for one.
Opportunity fell into his lap, it's not like he planned it. Please explain the brilliance in this?