You do realize his foundation helped eradicate polio worldwide. Some of you HNers can't give people a break.
What I know, however, is that I've been missioned in Africa by the gate foundation and that most money is wasted. Most stats are bullshitted.
What I know is that Gates have been misbehaving most of his life and that suddenly he is giving so much money he won from this time.
What I see is that a lot of people like you are very eager to forgive everything he has done, all the benefits he got from it, just because he is giving back what he took.
It's because of this that we can't improve our systems. A bit of PR and voila, all misdeeds are forgiven. Bad guys become saints. And people like you will spend their energy defend the story.
Everything I've read indicates Gates takes his philanthropy very, very seriously and is having a real impact on improving people's lives. I'm sure his foundations are not perfect and have problems, but I also believe they are a net benefit to the world.
Interesting to contrast with someone like Steve Jobs. His company arguably produced much better products impacting (shockingly) many more people, but he didn't give a dime to charity (as far as I know). Could have long philosophical arguments about who had the more positive impact on humanity overall.
The problem is that he controls that narrative.
See, that's the problem here.
You have completely forgotten how bad it was.
The fact the industry and society did well despite that is not relevant.
Over the years, my views towards Microsoft have softened.