No way Elon is this purposefully ignorant about Bill Gates origins.

Or honestly this fucking ignorant about the origins of modern computing in general.

Modern Bill Gates is shitty.

But this comment screams “ignorant, but well written typical leftist reddit shill”.

1. Rag to riches straw man. Gates never has claimed this.

2. Utilized predatory patenting. What? Perhaps later on? This had nothing to do with his rise or success.

This last one though needs the most push back: “Publicly funded work to sell back to the public.” This is the one that really screams “leftist” to me. Even if you want to look at the work he “stole” it was all developed and researched commercially first by others.

Gates developed (or first bought) DOS only after Gary Kildall told IBM to fuck off and wouldn’t sell his own commercial operating system.

Excel is a rip of VisiCalc and Lotus which were both commercial programs.

Even if you want to look at GUI interfaces those were stolen from Xerox PARC a commercial research facility.

Notice do any of these leftist or open source advocates push back against the Unix GUI front ends for stealing from commercially developed material? Fuck no.

Even if you want to complain about modern commercial operating systems stealing from Unix concepts Bill Gates himself is largely separated from that effort AND Steve Jobs is actually the dude who pioneered that particular sell job long before Gates.

You think this typical Reddit shill is lining up to criticize Steve Jobs who pioneered: predatory patenting, along with stealing both open source software AND hardware concepts to use in his commercial products?!

Hell no, this guy probably wrote this particular vomit worthy comment on his $3,000 MacBook while sodomizing himself with the latest iPhone Max model.

So yeah modern Bill Gates sucks but I personally object to purposeful leftist ignorance which routinely attempts to rewrite well known and understood historical concepts.