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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    6 hours ago

    How many 0’s are in his bank account?

    Yeah, he ripped that guy off.

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      4 hours ago

      not necessarily. There’s no saying if QDOS would have taken off if Gates and co hadn’t bought it. Also, Gates and co got their start because Gates’ mother put in a good word at IBM to get a contract. So had that not happened, we may not have windows today. Who’s to say.