It's widely under appreciated how much he championed there being a software industry at all. Most people thought software was just an aside that you threw in with the hardware. Software was also widely pirated and he fought for the notion that people should pay for software so that engineers could have a job building it.
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To me, Bill Gates will always be what Steve Jobs is to so many.
It's widely under appreciated how much he championed there being a software industry at all. Most people thought software was just an aside that you threw in with the hardware. Software was also widely pirated and he fought for the notion that people should pay for software so that engineers could have a job building it.
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Isn't he more like Zuckerberg?
I mean, he DID develop stuff, which Jobs didn't. He just didn't develop groundbreaking stuff, he just sold it better than his competitors.
Hate windows, but windows 3.1 was ground breaking for the tiime and was primarily the reason why computers took off.