Bill Gates will still own stock in them. He might even get richer. But you will have the brief pleasure of the powerless, seeing the powerful cowed. Henry Ford was cursed around the hearthstone for his persnickety Model T and his wealth and arrogance. It is American to grouse.
Inventors get rich and then plow it all back into more inventions.
Still we blister the air with our oaths. Let us take our revenge. Like children, we strike back at the unknowable offender. While we are well tended, living in the best circumstances in human history, our rage and blame must find a target. As if Novell and Word Perfect and Netscape were ruled by benign inventors who gave away their wealth and never authored a bug.