If Bill Gates Had Gone Into The Food Business

A magazine I otherwise respect, CIO, did a piece recently asking:

What If Bill Gates had Become a Restaurateur Instead of Making Software?
Imagine if Bill Gates had studied food science instead of computer science. A world without the Empire That DOS Built would be a very different world...

On these blog pages I have written plenty about Bill Gates supposed contribution to computing. (e.g. http://www.imran.com/media/blog/2005/05/stolen-content-from-bill-gates-new.html )

Most people with knowledge of computing will agree that Bill's 'vision' usually consists of speeches about technologies available on Apple 2-3 years prior, or already commercially known. His biggest "visions" have been that people do not need more than 640KB of memory on their PCs, the Internet is a fad, etc.

Quite frankly, if Bill Gates had gone into the food business, most people buying his food would have diarrhea or food poisoning most of the time - and they would just get used to it.

Gates would still get rich, by selling repackaged versions of the same food based on promises of less diarrhea and less pain.