henry riordan, the still cartoon who invented a revolutionary new metal had it taken away from him byhe government that was blackmailing him. ring any bells? how about bill gates, exactly like skynyrd in. callus dropout, created a revolutionary technology that transformed all our lives, became the richest man in the world in the process, well-deserved. in 1999 using tax dollars that bill gates himself and sent to washington washington says to bill gates a lawsuit from the department of justice seeking to break up microsoft on antitrust grounds which is a polite way of saying because he succeeded too much. now, just like riordan when that happened gates could not be bothered to dirty his hands going in hanging out with the sick people in washington. i don't blame him. microsoft is a gigantic company. two with three lobbyists at that time. he learned his lesson. the kind of won the suit, filed to force a lid on fairly favorable terms. microsoft is still struggling with the echoes of it, is still straining an antitrust issues in europe. there is another broken man. he stepped down as ceo