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Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52

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Date 2023-09-14 04:55 -0700
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Subject Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52
From Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 4:30:39 AM UTC-5, Captain Nemo wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:47:53 -0700 (PDT), Douglas Miller wrote: 
> 
> > On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 7:55:49 PM UTC-5, dxf wrote: 
> >> Clearly Kildall didn't have what it takes to be that. 
> > 
> > Correct, Gary was a good software engineer and a good human being.
> Correct. But a bad businessman.

Only in the sense that he didn't want to charge exorbitant prices for lousy product. He wasn't in it to be the richest man in the world. I wanted to provide a good product, and needed to charge for it in order to continue providing a good product. Sounds like the best kind of businessman to me.

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Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 KP2 KP2 <jungletrain@outlook.com> - 2023-09-11 18:00 -0700
  Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-12 15:16 -0400
    Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Aron Hoekstra <nullvalue@gmail.com> - 2023-09-12 20:25 -0700
      Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2023-09-13 09:31 +0000
        Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-13 20:45 -0400
        Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 10:55 +1000
          Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-13 18:47 -0700
            Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2023-09-14 09:30 +0000
              Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-14 04:55 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 16:38 +1000
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 04:01 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 KP2 KP2 <jungletrain@outlook.com> - 2023-09-16 09:47 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Douglas Miller <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-16 10:06 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2023-09-16 17:34 +0000
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-17 12:59 -0400
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 "comp.os.cpm" <philg@talk21.com> - 2023-09-19 09:42 -0700
                Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 "comp.os.cpm" <durgadas311@gmail.com> - 2023-09-19 10:02 -0700
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          Re: Gary Kildall, dead at age 52 Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2023-09-13 22:16 -0400
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