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"For us, it's a labor of love, and the rewards just happen to come along with it."

_ Jay Wilbur, id Software By Dwight Silverman

Houston Chronicle

Long ago and far away, the two owners of a very small software company shook hands on a deal with representatives from a very big hardware company.

The smaller firm agreed to write a program for the behemoth and in return would receive some money every time one of the big company's machines was sold.

That handshake changed the direction of computing forever. Today, Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is the most powerful software maker in the world. IBM, the other half of the deal, continues to struggle to keep pace with the ...

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