5/26/17

Were Some of the Web Giants a Bit Crooked?

When the Harvard Crimson student paper was hacked targeting Mark Zuckerberg visiting for a commencement speech there were articles posted about it descriving some of the Facebook founder's murck or even trecherous origin of the corporation wherein he might have stolen the idea from fellow students who had hired him to develop 'Harvard Connections' and expand it to other campuses.

https://www.cnet.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-speech-trolled-by-harvard-newspaper-sabotage/

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3?op=1/#-going-to-fuck-them-4

Peter Theil founder of Pay Pal was an early investor in the Zuckerberg Facebook start-up.

That made me recall that Bill Gates of Microsoft was also alledged to have received stolen goods; the DOS disc operating system that was developed by Gary Kildall through IBM who had purloined it and gave an exclusive contract to Mr. Gates for its pcs if he developed it.

Then there is the late Steve Jobs of Apple. Legend has it he stole the mouse idea that made small computer use practical. Apparently Jobs is the only one of the big three that seems to be entirely kosher. His encounter with the mouse of Xerox within a legitiamte paradigm allowed him to apply his talent for innovation and improvement to make a better mouse by orders of magnitude.

http://zurb.com/article/801/steve-jobs-and-xerox-the-truth-about-inno

Jobs too had some early encounters with Bill Gates that are interesting.

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/ms-dos-examined-for-thef/

http://stevejobsinc.blogspot.com/2011/04/bill-gates-steals-from-steve-jobs.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse

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