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2101 points jamesjyu | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.431s | source
1. ncmncm ◴[] No.19111075[source]
It was an interesting read until his admiration for Bill Gates soured it.

Besides milking the world of untold billions in unearned profits by illegally enforcing a monopoly on OSes, Gates personally held back progress in development of computer software by easily fifteen years. (Youngsters who never suffered Windows 9x might not know that Microsoft singlehandedly changed the meaning of "crashed" from "I need to restart my program" to "I need to re-install my OS".) It was only the explosion of smart phones that knocked his jackboot off the world's throat. Now he is putting drips and drabs into philanthropy to try to salvage his reputation.

Inspired by Bill Gates? No thanks.