If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

In February 1976 Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter saying that MITS could not continue to produce distribute and maintain high-quality software without payment. They have three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine (b. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer and then the BASIC interpreter.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation establiBill Gatesd in 2000. During his career at Microsoft Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect and remains the largest individual shareholder with 6.