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    which ones do you think I missed? (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    image transcription:

    big collage of people captioned, "the only people I wouldn't have minded being billionaires"
    names(and a bit of info, which is not included in the collage) of people in collage(from top left, row-wise):

    • Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of Sci-Hub. perhaps the single-most important person in the scientific community regarding access to research papers.
    • Linus Torvalds, creator of linux kernel and git, courtesy of which we have GNU/Linux.
    • David Revoy, french artist famous for his pepper&carrot, a libre webcomic. inspiration for artists who are into free software movement
    • Richard Stallman, arch-hacker who started it all. founded the GNU project, free software movement, Emacs, GCC, GPL, concept of copyleft, among many other things. champions for free software to this day(is undergoing treatment for cancer at the moment).
    • Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VLC media player for 2 decades now
    • Ian Murdock, founder of Debian GNU/Linux and Debian manifesto. died too soon.
    • Alexis Kauffmann, creator of framasoft, a French nonprofit organisation that champions free software. known for providing alternatives to centralised services, notable one being framapad and peertube.
    • Aaron Swartz, a brilliant programmer who created RSS, markdown, creative commons, and is known for his involvement in creation of reddit. he also died too soon.
    • Bram Moolenaar, creator of vim, a charityware.

    on the bottom right is the text reading, "plus the thousands of free software enthusiasts working tirelessly."

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't met gates and I agree these days he comes across pleasantly, but perhaps you are not old enough to remember stories of what he was like in his 30s and 40s when Microsoft was younger. He was a tyrant and viscously anticompetitive. As a husband my understanding is that he cheated on his wife (not uncommon I know but still hurtful). He might have become a somewhat better person, maybe, but he certainly wasn't one when he was making his fortune.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    I have an unfavourable view of gates despite his philanthropic actions. mainly because of his buying of large farmlands and his opposition to freely licence astra zeneca's vaccine.

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

    Oh yeah I know how predatory of a businessman he was, I just assumed he did it politely.