Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

What famous Microsoft-hater once led Microsoft's network software team and later founded a company that made him a billionaire?

  1. RealAudio CEO Rob Glaser

  2. Chuck Thacker, co-inventor of Ethernet

  3. Lotus CEO Mitch Kapor

  4. Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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Explanation

Rob Glaser did work at Microsoft leading their network software efforts before leaving to found RealNetworks (maker of RealAudio). He became a vocal Microsoft critic and built RealNetworks into a major competitor in media software, becoming a billionaire in the process. The other options are incorrect: Chuck Thacker co-invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC, Mitch Kapor founded Lotus (and was also a Microsoft critic but didn't work for them), and Eric Schmidt was CEO of Google and Novell, not a Microsoft-hating billionaire founder.

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