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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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[-] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 0 points 22 hours ago

He was friends with Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted for child abuse. Bill Gates is just an awful awful billionaire.

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[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 days ago

The Hated One has a few videos about Gates and the shit he has done. Windows is only the tip.

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[-] wolfinthewoods@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

"Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 16 points 2 days ago

Also, the only reason they were successful at all was his mom was on the IBM board and got IBM to support their shit.

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[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 10 points 2 days ago
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