What would happen if Bill Gates were born in U.S.S.R.?

[RedPaladin]

What would happen if Bill Gates were born in U.S.S.R.?
Would we be still posting at here? Or......

[Blake's Baby]

Yes. Bill Gates had little to do with the development of micro-computers or the internet, if that's what you're getting at.

[RedPaladin]

I mean if such who have talent on computers and the internet were in USSR, would they have chances and conditions to give full play to their talent and ability?

[RedAnarchist]

I mean if such who have talent on computers and the internet were in USSR, would they have chances and conditions to give full play to their talent and ability?

They didn't have the Internet in the USSR, which was a US invention, and the World Wide Web wasn't developed until the early 1990s after the Soviet collapse.

[brigadista]

he would buy a football team....

[Blake's Baby]

Capitalism spent decades researching automation. It wasn't the work of geek geniuses sitting in sheds, it was the research departments of massive corporations and universities and millions of dollars.

Are you asking, 'what if the Soviet Union had poured millions of dollars into automation and cybernetic reasearch?'

Or are you asking 'what if all the clever people had lived in Russia?'

[Tyrlop]

Bill gates was not clever, and has never been. he was just some geek who stoled linux and made it commercial

[Black Sheep]

soviet chips
http://www.cpushack.com/soviet-cpus.html

[4 Leaf Clover]

he would have probably invented tetris

[STI]

There were people who mattered way more to software development and the World Wide Web than Gates. The real question is: "What if Al Gore were born in the USSR?"

[Honggweilo]

Oh look, its another "what if" thread! :rolleyes:

What if Yakov Smirnoff was born in the US?

In Capitalist America, Banks dont pay for crisis, crisis is payed for by you!

Also Bill Gates was a venture capitalist who has done almost nothing for technological developement, only monopolizing software and hardware, and actually restraining technological developement in the past few decades. The real geinuses in the field of software were mostly open-source related programmers scammed by copyright (note that Gates that internet was a hopeless project calling it a "passing fad"). in the USSR he probably would have been a minor programmer.

[Sam_b]

He probably wouldn't have been called Bill Gates.

[Honggweilo]

He probably wouldn't have been called Bill Gates.
probably Bilo Yanamiatagatesovich

[Chambered Word]

KGB would have shot him.

[DreamWeaver]

This

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/17/images/0516_D23.jpg

[RedPaladin]

They didn't have the Internet in the USSR, which was a US invention, and the World Wide Web wasn't developed until the early 1990s after the Soviet collapse.

I know that, but the first model of network was developed in Amercan for military use in late 1960s.

[RedPaladin]

Capitalism spent decades researching automation. It wasn't the work of geek geniuses sitting in sheds, it was the research departments of massive corporations and universities and millions of dollars.

Are you asking, 'what if the Soviet Union had poured millions of dollars into automation and cybernetic reasearch?'

Or are you asking 'what if all the clever people had lived in Russia?'

I probably meant the later. If such people have talent in information technology live in USSR?

[NecroCommie]

What if this conversation never took place?

[Jeoh]

We'd be a lot better off. To both questions.