We will never know what happened on that day. None of the witnesses can be considered reliable. Even if they consider their own accounts as honest, the eventual fallout would taint their memories of the events. The best we can hope for is documentation to support one hypothesis or another (e.g. contracts).

That said, I do agree the common account is both disrespectful and inaccurate. I never understood why people would believe that Gary Kildall or Dorthy McEwen would brush off a business meeting. They may not have been an empire builders, but they were successful business people who built a successful business.