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submitted 2 days ago by Maerman@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

who cares if he didnt profit? "I convinced this man to make money off of the sick and he did it and profited off of a global contamination, but at least I also didnt get a kickback right? He was just gonna give it away the fuckin idiot!"

such a swell dude. totally not a shitbag human

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Listen m8 all I do is try to do is stop the spread of misinformation. If X thing is just as bad as Y... just say he did X thing. No need to embellish the story.

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I care when someone claims that they did. It's important to gets the facts straight imo. They commenter you're replying to didn't imply Gates was a good guy or something.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No one implied gates was profiting though? The guy I replied to right that out of nowhere as if that's relevant

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