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Bill Gates is a horrible person. (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (10 children)

No, I don't think that's accurate. Oxford Unkversity was going to waive their rights to the vaccine, and Gates pressured them to instead partner with Astra-Zeneca. But to my knowledge Gates never profited from that deal. Now, was there still some shady backroom dealing going on? Very possibly.

kffhealthnews.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/amp/

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    who cares if he didnt profit? "I convinced this man to make money off of the sick and he did it and profited off of a global contamination, but at least I also didnt get a kickback right? He was just gonna give it away the fuckin idiot!"

    such a swell dude. totally not a shitbag human

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    https://investorplace.com/2024/03/billionaires-biotech-bets-3-stocks-dominating-bill-gates-portfolio/

    He, through his foundation, own a significant portion of AstraZenica.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Where do you see that? That isn't anywhere in your link. The only reference to AZ is that they partnered with one of the companies that Gates invested in.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    His foundation owns stocks in Immunocore who is an Astra partner.

    Edit: immunocore does not own Astra that was a lazy read on my part

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No they don't dude. AZ doesn't have a parent company. Immunocore has about 1 billion dollars in assets, AZ has about 100 billion. Stop making stuff up.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    My bad partner "Immunocore’s specialty, however, has been working in oncology. Its therapies induced industry giants including AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), GSK (NYSE:GSK) and Genentech to partner with the biotech over the years."

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    That's completely different though. So they partner with all the big pharma companies, which makes sense given their research. Unless you think he's secretly on the take from AZ (idk how you would even attempt to bribe Bill Gates), he does not benefit at all financially from the Oxford/AZ deal and there's no sign of wrongdoing.

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