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American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

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William Henry Gates III (born 28 October 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is most famous as the co-founder of Microsoft, and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Forbes magazine has ranked him as the richest person in the world for twelve consecutive years.

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Native Name: William Henry Gates III

Alternative Names: William Gates • William Henry "Bill" Gates III • William H. Gates III • William H. Gates • William Henry Gates • William Henry "Bill" Gates • William "Bill" Henry Gates

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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?