Well, Sir Gate was good by the bill it seems. He certainly has changed his tune over the years. When he first became a billionaire he was crucified as the cheapest philanthropist in the world, not wanting to part with his money. After a scorching in the local papers, he immediately set out the PR campaign to remedy the situation. Seems like hes since discovered that charity brings a great return in tax write-offs. I.B.M. thought at the time that the general public was too ignorant and would be disinterested for there to be a market for home computers and thats why they so easily outsourced the writing for the OS (which he didnt write) to the then mini kit garage hacker Bill Gates who very shrewdly kept ownership of the OS and I.B.M. thought nothing of it at the time. That is, until they saw first hand that indeed there was a market to be had, but by then, the damage had been done, Bill Gates had launched a free give away program to schools and business companies and they had been hooked by its Mac-like (copycat?) simplicity of interface navigation. Now, Sir Gates makes si big bucks!