BILL GATES.

BILL GATES (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976)., chairman of software giant Microsoft, donated US$6 million in software, computers, Internet access and training to 300 public libraries in Chile.

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Author:	DEMPSEY, MARY
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Date:	Mar 1, 2001
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