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I like Bill. He's a successful guy who's done far more good than bad for humanity. He's made mistakes like the rest of us. Unfortunately the scale of his mis

I like Bill. He's a successful guy who's done far more good than bad for humanity. He's made mistakes like the rest of us. Unfortunately the scale of his mistakes come off larger than the rest of us.

ojosilva 5y ago
Epstein associates recruited underage girls outside of high schools. These girls ended up in parties where men like Bill Gates were being flown into on private jets (dubbed "Lolita Express"), according to reports surfacing now. This should say a lot about Gates judgment, morals, motivations and the scale and frequency of his mistakes, which are NOT like the rest of us.
supergirl 5y ago
are you also defending Epstein? would have been easy for him to donate $1B to some charity (maybe he even did) and you could argue he helped more people than he hurt.
piokoch 5y ago
Hmm. Not so sure. In terms of the operating systems there were better alternatives on the table, yet IBM has chosen Bill Gates company that did not even have operating system - luckily for Microsoft, they managed to license CP/M clone called 86-DOS created by Tim Paterson and sell it to IBM (as if IBM could not do this by itself or take CP/M or some Unix variant). Bill's mom was higher-up in IBM and she managed to convince management to buy from Bill and if it were not for Paterson, Bill would not have anything to sell, as timeline was really slim. For all the years of MS-DOS existence it was way better to install DR DOS, as it was more stable than Microsoft thingy. Then we get "marvels" like Windows 98 and infamous Windows ME (Millennium Edition). The first usable version of windowed operation system from Microsoft was Windows NT. New Technology meant more or less "hire David Cutler and his 30 people from Digital, so they can rewrite VMS system so Microsoft can sell it". We are yet to see first innovative product from Microsoft, so far they were catching up with the rest, sometimes trying to use shady techniques to gain advantage (like effectively killing very good Borland C++, but some tricks with API changes, so BCC code was not working correctly, so they could force people to use MS products). At the end, let's not forget about Internet Explorer, the product that was a true cancer of the WWW, horrible crap, pushed only to kill Netscape. Hard to estimate how many hours people spent on fixing web pages to make them work on IE. When it comes to charity work by Bill, I don't know how all of this worked, what was its true value, but anytime I hear in the same sentence "charity", "foundation", "very rich person" my brain starts screaming one thing: tax avoidance.
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I like Bill. He's a successful guy who's done far more good than bad for humanity. He's made mistakes like the rest of us. Unfortunately the scale of his mistakes come off larger than the rest of us.

ojosilva 5y ago

Epstein associates recruited underage girls outside of high schools. These girls ended up in parties where men like Bill Gates were being flown into on private jets (dubbed "Lolita Express"), according to reports surfacing now. This should say a lot about Gates judgment, morals, motivations and the scale and frequency of his mistakes, which are NOT like the rest of us.

supergirl 5y ago

are you also defending Epstein? would have been easy for him to donate $1B to some charity (maybe he even did) and you could argue he helped more people than he hurt.

piokoch 5y ago

Hmm. Not so sure. In terms of the operating systems there were better alternatives on the table, yet IBM has chosen Bill Gates company that did not even have operating system - luckily for Microsoft, they managed to license CP/M clone called 86-DOS created by Tim Paterson and sell it to IBM (as if IBM could not do this by itself or take CP/M or some Unix variant). Bill's mom was higher-up in IBM and she managed to convince management to buy from Bill and if it were not for Paterson, Bill would not have anything to sell, as timeline was really slim. For all the years of MS-DOS existence it was way better to install DR DOS, as it was more stable than Microsoft thingy. Then we get "marvels" like Windows 98 and infamous Windows ME (Millennium Edition). The first usable version of windowed operation system from Microsoft was Windows NT. New Technology meant more or less "hire David Cutler and his 30 people from Digital, so they can rewrite VMS system so Microsoft can sell it". We are yet to see first innovative product from Microsoft, so far they were catching up with the rest, sometimes trying to use shady techniques to gain advantage (like effectively killing very good Borland C++, but some tricks with API changes, so BCC code was not working correctly, so they could force people to use MS products). At the end, let's not forget about Internet Explorer, the product that was a true cancer of the WWW, horrible crap, pushed only to kill Netscape. Hard to estimate how many hours people spent on fixing web pages to make them work on IE. When it comes to charity work by Bill, I don't know how all of this worked, what was its true value, but anytime I hear in the same sentence "charity", "foundation", "very rich person" my brain starts screaming one thing: tax avoidance.

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