Bill Gates, Hand-wringing and Soul-searching
My grin begins to broaden when I read of the hand-wringing, soul-searching and committee-meeting going on over my good friend Bill Gates. I say 'good friend' in the same way I might call to mind Thomas Jefferson or Henry Ford, a friend in the metaphoric sense of someone who has done me well. Let me hasten to add, I own not a single share of Microsoft, darn the luck.
Congress has put him in the investigative chair between two of his competitors, to disprove if he can, that he is the reincarnation of John D. Rockefeller. Congress likes to do these things between flights back home to raise money from all three companies represented at the table. Picking on the largest is good 'home folks press,' the pointed finger and arched eyebrow is very senatorial. But they're not all that likely to fiddle with a good thing and Bill's running a good thing.
Roll back with me to those exciting days of yesteryear, the early days of automobiles, the last invention with anywhere near the impact of the compu…