The Boston Globe once reported that Gates was "asked" to leave Harvard for infringing the copyright on BASIC, which was owned by Dartmouth, and for "borrowing" computer time from machines owned by the US Government and located on campus.
Re: Bill Gates to finally receive his Harvard degree.
Gates and the University, according to the Globe, reached an agreement that he would not sell BASIC - which he promptly breached when he formed MicroSoft Corp. and began selling it for the MITS Altair. Oh well, we parole people who murder after a while, and I guess giving millions to the University helped to shorten institutional memory a bit.
