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I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is worshipped for more than his wealth. Growing up, he was the stereotypical wunderkind and people would say about smart kids "going
by scarejunba 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is worshipped for more than his wealth. Growing up, he was the stereotypical wunderkind and people would say about smart kids "going to be the next Bill Gates". Come on, I was there to type in Microserf and M$ when Microsoft was fucking everyone with the SCO bullshit. That was infuriating, as was all the crap around FAT and NTFS. But you rarely find the combo of technologist and smart businessman.
For all the crap he did, ultimately the Gates Foundation is awesome and it's set up in such a way that it doesn't last forever. All reasons to admire the fellow.
- gbronner 7y agoI attended a party at his house with a group of interns. He was worshipped, but in the wrong way -- a number of people wanted to touch his clothing or get his autograph, and they were employees. I don't think he was ever comfortable with that, and this allows him and his wife to work on interesting problems without causing political problems for MSFT.
- scarejunba 7y agoHaha, my man, I have to admit that is pretty weird. I don't imagine anyone would like that. Haha, it's like the pope or something.
- gbronner 7y agoIt was like they were touching Jesus. I was uncomfortable, and so was he.
- blahsterr 7y agohonestly how the fuck is he a technologist? he dropped out of pre-law.....to buy and rebrand somebody else’s qdos then sell it to his buddies at ib-fucking-m. then followed a couple decades of patent lawsuits, ripping off mac os, ripping off netscape, and making illegal deals to push his operating system on everybody, thereby setting back the computer industry by at least a decade. am i missing something?