The Key Decision that Earned Bill Gates his 53 billion »

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As Michael Fowlkes notes in his post this morning, Bill Gates topped Forbes' rich list yet again, with a net worth of $53 billion. I trace the reason why Gates is the world's richest person back to a decision he made at the dawn of the PC age.

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kboy
Sept. 22, 2006, 5:20 p.m.
I believe that Bill Gate's mother was on the board of IBM and put the deal together. Bill's father was a lawyer and helped make certain that Bill owned all rights to the MS-DOS and IBM only had usage of MS-DOS.
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Bobcat6
Sept. 23, 2006, 8:42 a.m.
Smart boy Bill. I also know that IBM decided against investing in the software market thinking it couldn't be expanded into what it is today. Bill made big money off IBM's errors. Wish I could have been there.