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.
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Bill Gates was NEVER a "programming whiz". He is/was just an also-ran. sigh...
Bill Gates, doesn't deserve
Bill Gates, doesn't deserve what he has right now.. He's a freaking college drop out.. How the heck does he get all that money, god but i love the xbox and halo 3 :]
Re: Bill Gates, doesn't deserve
Most very successful people, in what ever field are "college drop outs". College prepares you for the world work but mainly making other people rich. If you do not want that then you must leave it behind.
Thanks for the information...
Good article and even better comments. I linked to this article from "Bill Gates," a new Google knol I recently published at http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/bill-gates/1i6e04re3w2kp/4
I'd like to hear from anyone who can offer any more information on the question of whether Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard or was expelled.
David Blomstom
www.billysoft.org