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posted by takyon on Tuesday October 16 2018, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the preserve-his-brain dept.

Paul Allen has died at age 65:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/15/paul-allen-co-founder-microsoft-dies

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. He was 65.

Allen's company Vulcan said in a statement that he died Monday. Earlier this month Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, had returned.

Allen, who was an avid sports fan, owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.

Of course the article has more information. There was more to Paul Allen that just mentioned above. Bound to hit multiple sources with different takes so be on the lookout for something from a source you like.

takyon: Allen Institute bio and Vulcan Inc. statement.

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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday October 16 2018, @03:42PM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 16 2018, @03:42PM (#749561) Journal

    Let's not get too deep ino M$ revisionism. Those "Designed for Windows 95" stickers came with a lot of strings attached, at least for the software packages sprouting such nonsense. In order to develop for Windows 95 you had to also sign a contract to also develop for Windows NT. The latter contract came with a stipulation restricting development on any competing operating systems. That meant that MacOS and GNU/Linux could not be developed by the same teams. Few software houses were willing or able to support three isolated development teams, so we know how that went. There's probably still someting at Groklaw about that.

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