When you had the famous IBM contract, you won the
contract to produce their operating system
Why did they let you in effect own it, and they
had to license it?
Was that a mistake on their part?
Yeah this is before graphic interface when you still just
have text on the screen, and so
The software MS-DOS
Was a key thing
So it got to be more of a high-end machine,
include this MS-DOS
They didn't see how big this machine would be
And their legal department didn't want to take
responsibility for the source code
They had a fairly limited license
And that we understood that
This was a seminal machine, and other people
would do similar machines
So that was fairly advantageous to us
They didn't see the values being in the software,
they thought..
That the hardware was the key and software was
just a sort of necessary thing
So they had realized the vision we had which was
that software over time
Would be way more important than Hardware
They would have negotiated probably a different deal
You have a fair amount of money for anybody your age
at that time
Certainly did you say I'll go splurge and buy a nice car,
I'll buy an airplane, I'll buy a boat
Or you just didn't really care about that
I bought one thing that was a tiny bit of a splurge what
was that my first car that I owned was a Porsche 911
It was used but it was an incredible car
And that was actually when I was down in Albuquerque
And sometimes when I would want to think at night, I just
go out and drive around it at high speed
And fortunately I didn't kill myself doing that
