Questions tagged [bill-gates]
William Henry Gates III (1955-present) Widely associated with personal computers, he is probably best known for his role as cofounder, chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Was Bill Gates' mugshot photo used in 2010 as a template for Outlook contacts?
This claim recently came up in a Reddit post but linked to this article from news.softpedia.com which states:
Getting back to the Gates mug shot being used as the generic profile
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Are top quartile teachers radically better than their colleagues?
Bill Gates claimed in his TED talk Mosquitos, malaria and education:
A top quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class -- based on test scores -- by over 10 percent in a single ...
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Has any programmer ever been paid per line of code?
There have been some claims that some software developers were paid per line of code written:
Bill Gates was paid per line of code
I heard that Microsoft has a tradition of needlessly long and ...
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Did Bill Gates tamper with his school's computer system?
There is a story around that Bill Gates tampered with his school's (or college's) scheduling system to get in class with all the 'hot' girls.
Did this in fact happen?
References I've found:
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Did Bill Gates say 640k ought to be enough for everyone?
This is a quite famous quote:
640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Did Bill Gates say this?
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