Microsoft's Ex-gay Employee Ric Weiland Sucided

A somewhat pityful story on 365Gay.com of this Microsoft pioneer and gay philanthropist!

Ric Weiland was one of the first five employees hired by Microsoft, and the first who was openly gay. He made a sizable fortune working for the software giant and distributed his wealth freely among LGBT and HIV/AIDS organizations.

This week, at 53, he took his own life at his Seattle home. Friends said that he had been depressed for some time. Weiland, [...] leaves behind his partner Mike Schaefer and numerous nieces and nephews.

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Weiland first met Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and they became good friends. In 1975 Allen and Bill Gates founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico hired Weiland and four others.

Weiland moved with Microsoft to Redmond Washington in 1979. He briefly left the company for a stint at the Harvard Business School returning to Microsoft in 1982. After leaving Microsoft in 1988, Weiland dedicated most of his time to philanthropy.

"Ric was certainly a key contributor to Microsoft's early success and was a brilliant programmer," Allen said in a statement. "I have many fond memories of Ric and all the things we did together, and I will miss him."
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