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Comment by purpleidea | Hacker News Reader

Bill Gates has done more harm to software and innovation than anyone in history.

He's a bad dude, and the only reason he does all this is so that waiters don't spit in his food at fancy restaurants.

The world suffers under the crippling weight of proprietary M$ Windoze everywhere, and we're far worse off because of it.

Want to help, donate money to support Free Software projects with strong copyleft licenses.

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While many of us Linux and open source nerds share the sentiment you described, I seriously doubt waiters see him and remember how they murdered the competition by bundling software with Windows OS in the 90s and 2000s.

Unless those waiters are unemployed local tech workers who aged out.

Wrong crowd, but upvoted nonetheless.

You could always buy a Linux laptop or an android tablet. Tablets and smartphones is where windows lost. Those devices far outnumber PCs. Your complaint about windows is old. You have options to not use it today.

Now he did lose my trust and that’s because of two things:

1. His association with Epstein. It is documented and quite possibly the reason for his divorce.

2. His trust made controversial deals during Covid. The poorer countries wanted the formula so that they could scale up production themselves. However, the gates foundation supported the patent on the vaccines instead and had themselves and middlemen to arbitrate price on the supply

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