[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 21:35:04 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 21:01 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
> […]
>> Being on holiday at a crucial moment is dangerous, do you 
>> remember how Bill Gates got his first big job that started it 
>> all? :-)
>
> Bill Gates' mother told the then IBM CEO to hire Microsoft?
> 

Well, legend has it that he got the deal, because the DOS guy was 
on holidays. But your version is probably closer to the truth ;) 
I don't know how much truth is in the Wiki entry about this whole 
issue.