The positives and negatives of a person are not additive in a way that if you add good things and subtract negative things you get some final value. These all

The positives and negatives of a person are not additive in a way that if you add good things and subtract negative things you get some final value. These all can be true at the same time. * Gates was an angry office bully - he admits this himself. He was total jerk. * Gates routinely used dishonest business tactics and monopoly power to crush competition. Microsoft contributed negatively to software development. Microsoft Research was famous for doing good stuff that was absent in MS business. * After retiring donates his money to charity. Gates is not alone. John D. Rockefeller and many other business tycoons have done the same.