Re: "Bill founded our company with a belief in the democratizing force of software"
GW-Basic, and later QBasic and VBA, are languages that basically anyone can learn to use within the scope of a couple of days self-guided learning on the web. (Or, back in the day when they were invented, a single book, or maybe a two-day training course.) No degree, no background in computer science principles required, no knowledge of things like "the stack" or even "memory".
That's - pretty democratic.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
