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When former President Lee Teng-Hui received my gift of the book "Open the the Way for Next Generation" (Kuo Lichang, 2005), he immediately flipped through it and saw a photo of William H. Gates Sr. and me on page 191. He then told a story.

Fig 1: William Gates Sr. and Author

On January 13, 1988, President Chiang Ching-Kuo passed away suddenly, and Lee Teng-Hui succeeded him as president, but undercurrents were surging. President Lee was feeling anxious and uneasy when someone informed him: "The governor of Washington State is visiting." President Lee said he was 183 cm tall, and he was most impressed by Mr. Gates, who was a head taller than him. He mainly came to ask President Lee for help with the practice of "law + software"—if PCs exported from Taiwan had "MS-DOS" (Disk Operation System) installed (without any patents), he hoped to pay for it. President Lee quickly found the relevant departments to handle it. He said: "Later it seemed to be $100 per unit." William won the first battle, and then followed the same method. Under "zero marginal cost", he actually created the world's richest man.

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