Paul Allen has died
I am guessing that most people here have apparently forgotten about the patent troll aspect of Paul Allen:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20100827&#x2F;12001710802.shtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20100827&#x2F;12001710802.shtml</a><p>Now I am sure there are those that will think it&#x27;s in bad taste to bring this up. However I am not saying this to family or friends at a funeral. I am merely raising it so people can stop lionizing him because he was a co-founder of Microsoft.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;the-woz-slams-paul-allen-as-a-patent-troll-2011-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;the-woz-slams-paul-allen-as-...</a><p>Allen was with Microsoft for a short period of time and left pretty soon after they struck the deal with IBM for the OS. 1982. Edit: As such he contributed a nominal amount to Microsoft&#x27;s success (and after all it was Bill Gates connections and hustle that got that deal).<p>Also interesting that the wikipedia page has no mention of the patent trolling it obviously appears to be cleaned of this info (as of this moment at least):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Allen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paul_Allen</a>