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Bill Gates  Well, somebody had to be the richest man on Earth,
but why did it have to be him? William Henry Gates III, now just
called "Bill Gates" or "billg", rules over a company that is the
undisputed monopoly of the computer software business, with
tendrills extending in nearly all related fields (and some
unrelated ones as well). Through his efforts and the efforts of
the folks he has groomed over the decades, his domain and
personal wealth have increased at near psychotic-levels while at
the same time causing what some might consider permanent damage
to the landscape of the very industry he helped form.  In the
present day, it is quite useless to discern where Microsoft ends
and Bill begins, and vice versa. Instead, to get any idea of
Bill Gates, it's best to go back to the 1970s and the early
1980s, before Microsoft went public and shot the little dweeb
into the financial stratosphere.  People with roman numerals
after their names general