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.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    fake charity that benefits him in other ways.
    there is zero altruistic motive in anything he does.

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      4 hours ago

      That is simply not true. I might be that some of it benefits him partly or fully, but saying that nothing of all his projects does anything other than benefit him is something easily falsifiable.

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      Pretty sure the charity actually does decent work

      But yeah, it’s basically a way to clear his name in the history records