I have mixed feelings about BillG with my only conflict being around his stance on being pro-Intellectual Monopoly laws and anti-open source/intellectual freedo

I have mixed feelings about BillG with my only conflict being around his stance on being pro-Intellectual Monopoly laws and anti-open source/intellectual freedom: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists 2. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_... 3. http://techrights.org/2009/06/25/bill-gates-office-patents/ http://techrights.org/2009/06/25/bill-gates-office-patents/ It's a real intellectual struggle for me because his recent Netflix, his writings, his book recommendations, the company he built, the Melinda + Bill Gates Foundation, he's done so much good for the world but I still haven't seen him come out against Intellectual Monopoly laws, which due so much bad for the world (and which he has made such a fortune off of). The examples of the evil that Intellectual Monopoly laws do are numerous, but take the recent opioid epidemic—the root cause was patent law! You make 100x+ more money off selling patented drugs, regardless of the outcome on the patient, so we have a whole industry that is focused on making patented drugs, and not actually helping cure or heal people, and we get horrible horrible things like the opioid crisis (disclosure: took the lives of a number of my friends). If BillG comes out against Intellectual Monopoly laws of copyrights and patents, then I will think he is a true saint.