Comments on: When Bill Gates claimed to work for $2 an hour https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-bill-gates-claimed-to-work-for-2-an-hour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-bill-gates-claimed-to-work-for-2-an-hour David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: Scott https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-bill-gates-claimed-to-work-for-2-an-hour/#comment-57486 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:39:33 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36763#comment-57486 Poor Bill, working so hard, inventing Basic, C, C plus, Delphi, Ms-dos, even inventing Windows and the mouse, with all those people around him trying to take away his inventions. No wonder the industry was set back for decades.

I find “Bill Gates The Godfather of Tech Industry”, an interesting YouTube documentary, that is over 10 hours long, about especially Gary Kildall stealing Bill his inventions, perfectly describing how tragic Gates his life became.

]]> By: S.M. Oliva https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-bill-gates-claimed-to-work-for-2-an-hour/#comment-56757 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:42:25 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=36763#comment-56757 Parasitic Engineering was Howard Fullmer’s company. After it went defunct, Fullmer joined George Morrow’s company, Morrow Designs. Fullmer and Morrow also jointly led the effort to codify the S-100 bus standard with the IEEE.

What’s funny about the backlash to Gates’ letter is that it reflected a belief among a good number of the late 1970s hardware-focused hobbyists that software was not a viable commercial product. George Morrow himself made a few comments on this issue, painting software developers as a bunch of prima donnas who regularly over-promised and under-delivered. As far as George was concerned, software was something that should be sold bundled with a computer, not a standalone purchase.

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