Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]

Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by TimTheTinker on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:55PM (#19750074)

"Fake it till you make it" is often about jumping at a market opportunity on borrowed time, money, or experience. Like Bill Gates licensing MS Basic before he had written it.

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by bartread on Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:14PM (#19752085)

> Like Bill Gates licensing MS Basic before he had written it.

That's actually an interesting case because, although he didn't have MS BASIC at that point, he knew he'd be able to deliver it by the time he needed it. So, was he really faking it?

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by TimTheTinker on Thursday April 25, 2019 @06:48PM (#19753230)

I just looked this up. According to Wikipedia, Gates called MITS and offered to demonstrate an implementation of Altair BASIC in roughly 8 weeks. He used those 8 weeks to implement it. So I was wrong - he didn't license it, but merely scheduled a demo, before it existed.

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Re:Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Thei... by Fnoord on Monday April 29, 2019 @02:54AM (#19776372)

Or like Bill Gates selling MSDOS (based on CP/M) to IBM

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