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Verisign arnt the only bad boys..... for example:
DOS actually stands for dirty tricks operating system and was built by Seattle computers, gates bought em out and changed it to disk operating system.
Windows was a concept origionally brought up by Mac, whilst gates was working for mac, he stole the concept (mac stole the concept from Xerox). he then bought a majority share in the company.
WindowsNT was origionally created by a company called new technologies, gates bought them out too.
Internet explorer was origionally made by Spyglass inc..... MS bought the code (dunno if they own them yet).
There programmers havent actually made much 
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I get the general gist of what you are saying but (sorry) i think there are a few inaccuracies...
I don't think Gates has ever owned a majority share of Apple - or worked there. I also don't think a company called "new technologies" ever existed.
IE was.... "Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic™; was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
I might be wrong - please correct me and my apologies if so.
You are certainly right that they buy a lot of innovative technology though.
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There once was a time when Microsoft wasnt so big
Gates made DOS for IBM, he then moved on to Steve jobs crew, Apple was a big company and Microsoft had 3 employees.
IE was/ is based on Mosaic, Spyglass still built it though.
Gates lauched windows in Japan before Jobs did his Mac OS job, therefore beating him to the punch, Jobs was also pushed out of Mac by other share holders. Later on Gates bought a ton of shares and Brought Jobs back as the CEO in the 80's.
(I was out in Detroit to see the launch of WinXP and they played a film about him, hence the reason I know all this useless information
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