Where has he even said this? Don't spread random FUD or show proof.
He said it in the article about Vostok. He said it's been 10 years since Bitcoin was created - why is it taking so long for a supposedly promising technology to gain traction? He was paraphrasing Bill Gates, the guy who stole the personal computer OS market that Gary Kildall had single-handedly created. In short, Gates bought a clone of CP/M and sold it to IBM while Kildall was still negotiating with them.
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SIDENOTE (skip over for comments on Vostok)
When Kildall died, Gates used it as an opportunity for self-aggrandizement, saying that they were competitors, giving the impression that he won some mythical OS war. In fact, Microsoft at the time was a small software house making - mostly mediocre! - compilers and interpreters.
IBM initially visited Gates by mistake. Gates said, "I don't do operating systems - speak to Gary Kidall!" After Gates had bought the CP/M clone, he signed an agreement straightaway, saying, you just had to trust IBM, but the reason Kildall didn't sign straightaway was because he had an OS business to protect. Also, IBM had put obstacles in the way that were removed for Gates. Gates' mother knew the CEO of IBM, so that might have played a role, too, in Gates' success.
Later, Gates gave the impression that Kildall priced CP/M for the IBM PC at $240 vs $40 for DOS (the CP/M clone). But it was IBM who had done that - to kill it! Kildall could have sued IBM, but, instead, said that the market should decide, and IBM agreed to sell CP/M for the PC alongside DOS. Gates and IBM, effectively, conspired to destroy Kildall's firm. A decade or so later, Kildall went cap in hand to Gates, offering to sell his firm to Microsoft. Gates offered a paltry $10 million for it. Kildall later got over $100 million from Novell.
For the definitive account, get the paperback (NOT hardback) version of "They Made America" by Harold Evans. From that book: "But Kildall told him [Gerry Davis], 'Bill's a friend of mine. He wouldn't cut my throat'" Some friend!
Kildall wrote privately of Gates, "He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry."Google "Gary Kildall and the 40th Anniversary of the Birth of the PC Operating System computerhistory"
Google "Gary Kildall and Collegial Entrepreneurship drdobbs" for an article in a well-known computer programming journal.
Search YT 4 "The Computer Chronicles: The Macintosh Computer (1985)" by user "Bob Blahloblaw"
Move slider to 14:23 and watch Kildall (he co-presented that program for six years) introduce GEM. GEM is what we would have got had Gates not stabbed a friend in the back. What Microsoft gave us:
Search YT 4 "Mum tries out Windows 1.0 (1985)" by user "OSFirstTimer"
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Vostok is for SUPER WEALTHY INVESTORS ONLY using technology developed with money provided by Waves investors! So, the rest is simple inference. There is NOTHING stopping Sasha from later porting Waves over to Vostok and killing Waves.
No one with half a brain would trust the guy now. His job was to make Waves a success - NOT move on to another project - JUST HOW MUCH MONEY DOES HE WANT? But he has form in doing this.
As for Vostok - a completely separate project to Waves! - creating synergy: you might as well say every cryptocurrency out there gives Waves synergy, because they're all contributing to the development and uptake of blockchain technology. This is just a sop to gullible investors!
Not supposedly
Well, it's what I read. I have no hard evidence - do you?
