Reply to post: "Bill founded our company with a belief in the democratizing force of software"

Microsoft's Bill Gates defrag is finally virtually complete: Billionaire quits board to double down on philanthropy

Pascal Monett Silver badge

"Bill founded our company with a belief in the democratizing force of software"

After which he promptly forgot all of that to go closed-source and do his damnedest to counter all possible rivals by inserting control code into his various OS versions to make sure everyone else's products would be as slow and unstable as possible.

Sorry, but even though I appreciate what he is doing philanthropically, the guy was an asshole and a machiavelic behind-the-scenes manipulator. The angel dust does not impress me.

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