The Plot to Get Bill Gates - Hardcover

Rivlin, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812930061 ISBN 13: 9780812930061

Verlag: Times Books, 1999

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A delightful and humorous investigation into the controversial world of Bill Gates and his foes is reminiscent of Moby Dick and Roger and Me and explores our cultural fixation on Microsoft's billionaire with bad hair, society's odyssey to understand him, and more. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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Gary Rivlin is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, Drive-By and Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction and the Chicago Sun-Times Nonfiction Book of the Year. He has reported on city politics for The Chicago Reader and the East Bay Express. His work has appeared in many publications, including The Nation, Upside, In These Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1993, he received the San Francisco Bay Area Media Alliance's Print Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting on urban violence. He lives in Oakland and is editor of the East Bay Express.

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d the magnitude of Bill Gates, one must first understand the people who hate him, most of whom suffer from an acute case of "Bill Envy."<br>The Plot to Get Bill Gates is the true, hilarious story of a loosely knit cabal of Silicon Valley's wealthiest and most successful leaders and their quest to defeat the richest man in the world. These leaders are known within Microsoft as Captain Ahab's Club for their self-destructive fixation with harpooning the Great White Whale of Redmond, all two hundred pounds and $50 billion of him. Acclaimed journalist Gary Rivlin tells their tale as a high-tech variation on Moby-Dick, and <br>by taking us deep inside the world of Gates and his enemies, he vividly reveals their consuming obsession. <br>Lead players in The Plot are Lawrence Ellison of Oracle, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, Ray Noorda of Novell, Marc Andreessen and James Barksdale of Netscape, Philippe Kahn of Borland, and Gary Kildall (the unsung programmer who could have been Gates),

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0812930061
• ISBN 13: 9780812930061
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 10
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