I like to make fun of Bill as much as the next anti-MS shill, but influential position on the board is not the same as writing the code with a 384k memory limit.
Also, how much influence do board members have on code of an OS anyways? All code must be written in Rust type of decisions. You must refactor these 10 lines into a function to be used later kind of decisions? That seems way too boots on the ground for a 30k' view type of position/job description.