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Skriven 2005-03-04 17:20:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ALAN ZISMAN
Ärende: Re: I've had it!
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Hello Alan - 

GM>> What is Peter Norton doing these days? Does he know / care
GM>> that Symantec has screwed the software and the consumer? 

CA>> P. Norton walked with a few million quite some time ago
CA>> and I've not found any comments attributed to him for as
CA>> long or longer. He wasn't all that active at the time
CA>> anyhow. He was a DOS guru and DOS wasn't the dominant OS
CA>> anymore. 

AZ> Brief bio at: http://www.nndb.com/people/704/000030614/ 

AZ> A Google search for "Peter Norton art" also found items
AZ> like a Whitney Museum (NYC) exhibition funded by the Peter
AZ> Norton Foundation. 

OK, it's a brief 'bio' so let's share? :-) 

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Peter Norton

Peter NortonBorn: 14-Nov-1943
Birthplace: Aberdeen, WA

Gender: Male
Religion: Buddhist
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Computer Programmer, Business

Level of fame: Somewhat
Executive summary: Retired computer utilities programmer
MS-DOS  utilities  programmer  famous for Norton Utilities, sold
his  business to Symantec, a company which produces few original
products  of  its  own  but  thrives  instead  on  acquisitions.
Popularized  the "Norton pose", a smug, arms-cross, "I Have What
You  Need  d"  look.  Of  course,  this  was  after  his "I Am a
Buddhist  Monk" period where he shaved his head around 1971. Now
a  major  collector  of contemporary art. Estimated net worth as
of 1998, $300-400M. 

Wife: Eileen Harris Norton (black, m. 1983, div. 2000) 

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I'm  surprised  that  Norton  has  100s  of  millions, his stuff
wasn't  that  much  better  than  Medford who gave his away from
within  PCMag  or  many  others whose names I now forget. Norton
was a Dvorak who could program in ASM for DOS. :-) 

Good to know he is enjoying his retirement. :-) 

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