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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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[–] 23 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Did you also read that he taught himself code by reading out print outs in the trash? He wanted to close that ability to learn. Shut that open stuff down and make licenses, while he himself learned from others.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't he come from a stupidly rich family and had access to a computer (at a time when it was like having access to a helicopter) whenever he wanted to learn and fiddle around? Isn't that where he got the print outs?

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    With connections to the Rockefeller family. Also his mom was the one who convinced IBM to give Bill the contract for MS-DOS (which he bought from some other guy).

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