Odd puff-piece with little substance.

yitchelle · on May 4, 2015

I agree, and I am also amused why it got so many upvotes?

edit: grammar

adventured · on May 4, 2015

Paul Allen - correctly so in my opinion - gets a lot of respect from hackers.

mattmanser · on May 4, 2015

Not on HN. Because he's a patent troll. I am also surprised at the upvotes.

WorldWideWayne · on May 4, 2015

My guess is that it's part of the campaign to make developers love Microsoft by reminding them that Microsoft was once a startup too and like Apple, it has it's own folk heroes. I guess they overlooked the fact that people on HN apparently don't like this guy.