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>He mostly got hate because people hated Microsoft. I believe that the hypothesis of the article is that people hated Microsoft because of Ballmer.

• protomyth 10y ago
  Mr. Gates was in charge when Microsoft did quite a bit of their hated activities. It was Gates as CEO who rigged it so all of us buying a PC to run a different OS had to pay for Windows.
  • josu 10y ago
    Apple also did a fair share of evil things, but it managed to be viewed as cool rather than evil. However, it is obvious that we are talking about subjective things here, and establishing causality is certainly not easy.
    • r00fus 10y ago
      Interesting - do you have a cite?