You may love or you may hate him, but you’d have to be living under a rock — without an Internet connection — not to know who Bill Gates is. Gates was for years the world’s richest man, even if it wasn’t a mantle he wore gladly. He earned his billions by co-founding Microsoft Corp., a company whose technology — again — may be loved or may be hated but almost can’t be avoided in modern society.

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