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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what is personally wrong with gates?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

He's really awful too, or at the very least he used to be.

He's done a lot of rebranding himself as being a great guy as of late, and put his money towards some great causes.

But when he was in charge of Microsoft he'd openly treat people like shit, openly steal things, openly do anticompetitive and illegal business practices, deliberately put small companies out of business, and openly bribe politicians to look the other way as he built his illegally-gained business empire.

The technology landscape today is vastly more closed and monopolised because of his/MS's actions.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the recent stuff is him trying to whitewash his image so he isn't remembered as the bastard he is. Unfortunately, it's working.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

At least he some good causes are getting something out of it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

put his money towards some great causes

Don't forget how much MS lobbied countries all over the world to spend public money on MS products. Plus the anticompetitive shenanigans, it's more of an our money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you accept his research money (which people don't seem to do anymore) there are so many strings attached that if you find something you'll probably be liable even if you give it all up for free.

I'm still waiting for something good coming out of his pocket money spendings for good causes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still waiting for something good coming out of his pocket money spendings for good causes.

The eradication of polio isn't good enough for you?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. He's a billionaire.
  2. Cheated on his wife.
  3. Travelled to Epstein's Island.
  4. Got removed from Microsoft for propositioning female employees for sex
  5. Used Microsoft's market position to kill off any competition. Remember Netscape?
  6. His foundation pushed hard to make the COVID vaccines intellectual property of drug manufacturers so they would get richer, leaving the world dependent on them for doses instead of allowing everyone to produce it.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the incessant lobbying for charter schools even though nobody wants them and there's no research to suggest they are better than the public system.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

He's a giant asshole too (I mean when you look at Microsoft it's not very positive) but he's worked a lot on his image in the last decades