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Why Bill Gates Wants to Be a Better Go Player

In "Why does Bill Gates want to be a better Go player?", David de Ugarte says that "The birth of videogames and Apple’s first steps, free software’s first steps, and even the platforms that allowed for the organization of tens of thousands of volunteers for the earthquake in Haiti, all have something in common: their creators cited Go as a source of personal inspiration and related it to their form of innovating and thinking." de Ugarte's fascinating March 14 post on the Las Indias blog asks "What good is Go to those who change the world?" and takes a look at the go lessons learned and applied by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi (right), Tron's Ken Sakamura, Richard Stallman of GNU (/Linux), Microsoft's Bill Gates and young extrepreneur Luke Biewald (left), the creator of Crowdflower. de Ugarte has published two other posts on go, Reason Against Force and How Go Became The Favorite Game Of Anarchist And Libertarians. He's an economist, technologist "and entrepreneur committed to new models of economic democracy." Thanks to Mark Gilston & Bart Jacob for passing this along.