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==History and life==

==History and life==

[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee. The monument stands about 5 miles from where [[David Greenglass]] passed off the proximity fuse to [[Harry Gold]] in the famous [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]].  When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]]

[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee. The monument stands about 5 miles from where [[David Greenglass]] passed off the proximity fuse to [[Harry Gold]] in the famous [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]].  When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]]

Gates interest in computers began at age 13.  To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories.  There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase where Sandia labs is housed what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].

Gates interest in computers began at age 13.  To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories.  There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].

William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney.  Under the [[DARPA]] program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the [[United States Government]] cannot own a patent.

William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney.  Under the [[DARPA]] program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the [[United States Government]] cannot own a patent.