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Bill Gates is a horrible person. (lemmy.world)

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

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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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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

His mother was an influential person on the board of directors of several firms. She met with John Opel, who was the IBM chairman, and secured her son's Microsoft contract with IBM in the 1980s, where it then became dominant and made her a ton of money.

It's vested interests, and who you know.

[-] Maerman@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I read that he was a nepo baby. Also, people say "But he dropped out of university to start Microsoft."

He dropped out of fucking Harvard. His life was easy as piss from the get-go.

[-] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Is everyone at Harvard a nepo baby or has definitely had an easy life? I don’t understand your argument.

[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Yes, aside from a few scholarship kids, the Ivy League schools, and especially Harvard and Yale, were specifically built and continue to this day to be schools for the children of the elite.

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