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In 2014, how can you not like Bill Gates. He's a far better person than Steve Jobs ever was. He's making the world a better place.
by philliphaydon 13y ago
In 2014, how can you not like Bill Gates. He's a far better person than Steve Jobs ever was. He's making the world a better place.
- culturestate 13y agoThis is such a tired meme. They both made bad choices and were both, at various points in time, equally reviled. Gates has simply had the time and inclination to rehabilitate his image in public through an impressive array of charitable works - we don't need to continuously harp on Jobs just because he's dead now and will never have that chance.
- webreac 13y agoI have finished my studies in 1993. I have seen all the innovation between 1982 and 1990 (Commodore, Amstrad, Oric, ZX, Turbo Pascal, ...) and how Bill Gates has killed software I was using (Stacker, dr dos, gem, ...). I think he has contributed to slow down innovation by his monopolistic tactics (windows undocumented, ...). Microsoft bad behaviour has been clearly demonstrated in trials. I think that the current wave of innovation does not owe anything to Microsoft. Now, he may be another man, I do not know, but I know what he did to computer science.