Money – 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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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.