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		smackay on March 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Hits Out at Gates Cringley's account is very critical of Gates and Balmer, particularly on the subject of getting control of Paul Allen's shares in Microsoft should the worst happen. While this seems very cold-blooded it was probably a reasonable course of action given the circumstances - look what happened to CraigsList when one of the founders sold out to eBay.

yannickt on March 30, 2011 [–]

My interpretation of the article is that Allen felt betrayed because Gates and Ballmer were having these discussions behind his back.

dantheman on March 30, 2011 | [–]

Exactly, everything should be done above board -- when an unexpected event happens and the outcome is unknown it doesn't hurt to have a contingency plan if stuff doesn't work out.

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