So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

No, I don't think that's accurate. Oxford Unkversity was going to waive their rights to the vaccine, and Gates pressured them to instead partner with Astra-Zeneca. But to my knowledge Gates never profited from that deal. Now, was there still some shady backroom dealing going on? Very possibly.

kffhealthnews.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/amp/

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

who cares if he didnt profit? "I convinced this man to make money off of the sick and he did it and profited off of a global contamination, but at least I also didnt get a kickback right? He was just gonna give it away the fuckin idiot!"

such a swell dude. totally not a shitbag human

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Listen m8 all I do is try to do is stop the spread of misinformation. If X thing is just as bad as Y... just say he did X thing. No need to embellish the story.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I care when someone claims that they did. It's important to gets the facts straight imo. They commenter you're replying to didn't imply Gates was a good guy or something.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://investorplace.com/2024/03/billionaires-biotech-bets-3-stocks-dominating-bill-gates-portfolio/

He, through his foundation, own a significant portion of AstraZenica.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where do you see that? That isn't anywhere in your link. The only reference to AZ is that they partnered with one of the companies that Gates invested in.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

His foundation owns stocks in Immunocore who is an Astra partner.

Edit: immunocore does not own Astra that was a lazy read on my part

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No they don't dude. AZ doesn't have a parent company. Immunocore has about 1 billion dollars in assets, AZ has about 100 billion. Stop making stuff up.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

My bad partner "Immunocore’s specialty, however, has been working in oncology. Its therapies induced industry giants including AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), GSK (NYSE:GSK) and Genentech to partner with the biotech over the years."