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

submitted 2 days 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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[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

Even if he wasn't he's still a capitalist pig.

[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world -1 points 21 hours ago

*oligarchical pig

Capitalism is just free competition, which is the opposite of what Bill Gates is for.

In a communist economy he would be the same pig.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

Capitalism always lead to monopolies and a lack of competition. At some point one company will always get lucky and be able to use its money to completely destroy competition, especially small competition.

[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

*Oligarchy always lead to monopolies and a lack of competition.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago

Yes and capitalism has all the incentives to create oligarchies.

[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago

So does socialism and communism.

[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Ok buddy boy. Sounds like someone is a temporarily embarassed millionaire.

[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago

Sounds like you can't understand your own arguments.

[-] LemmeAtEm@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Sounds like the sole source of your "education" was the willful swallowing of propaganda. It really is gross how these know-nothing sycophants for capitalism have infested lemmy. Capitalism is oligarchy, it always without fail trends towards monopoly no many how reformist "regulations" succdems try to throw at it. Communism (via socialism) not only does not lead to oligarchy, it is the only proven workable means of preventing it in a capitalist-dominated world. If you could pry your tongue off the capitalist's boot for few seconds you might be able to learn something about how the world actually works.