His name was Gary Kildall. The whole fucking history of the industry is replete with stories of an actually innovative person having his shit stolen & attributed to one of Their MKU bots, i.e. Gates. That stolen innovative thing is then twisted into some cog in the horrific behavioral modification apparatus. Over and over and over again.
These days, whenever I hear about some new thing that was "built by two guys in their garage" I avoid it like the plague–it's essentially a great big sticker on the front that says "comped."