The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):

Bill Gates
Gates

    William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of
   Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen.
   In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft
   is worth about $27b.  He was a computer nerd who dropped out
   of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose
   software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes,
   February 3, 1976).

   (1995-03-02)