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Bill Gates is a horrible person. (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by 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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[–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Its any position of power in my experience. People get power, justifying in their mind that they and people like them should be in power. Even games about being in charge run into that problem. Maintaining power becomes a major part of the game at some part.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's a good point, as illustrated by things like the Stanford Prison Experiment.

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