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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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

With connections to the Rockefeller family. Also his mom was the one who convinced IBM to give Bill the contract for MS-DOS (which he bought from some other guy).

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

If I'm remembering correctly, his mom was on the board of IBM.