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Bill Gates AMA gets asked the only questions that matter yesterday. (media.patriots.win)
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– ravioli_king [S] 12 points ago +12 / -0

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Elon too. :-)

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– SpiceMustFlow -7 points ago +3 / -10

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.

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– residue69 2 points ago +3 / -1

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"Nobody wants to hear about a thirty-year-old genius who wanted to create a perfect market," she reasoned, according to Adam Cohen's book The Perfect Store: Inside eBay. "They want to hear that he did it for his fiancée."

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– SpiceMustFlow 3 points ago +3 / -0

What does this off topic nonsense have anything to do with what I said????

I’m not aware of major lies about Gates’ origin story. It’s well documented both by him and third party sources.

Like I said modern Gates is shit. And honestly his ability in terms of being a predictor of where technology is headed is rather poor. So if you really want to criticize the guy during his most important years I mean certainly his book was a great example of that.

Completely dropped the ball in terms of the rise of the internet and then later on in terms of the importance of physical product design.

If you’re claiming there are lies about the Bill Gates origin story of being a son of a rich attorney who went to Harvard and then subsequently dropped out to code software starting with a form of basic for a very limited personal computer by all means let us know.

And really you’re taking an outsiders view of creating publicity in an existing website market and comparing it to someone who literally created an entire market for himself. Yes. Bill Gates did that. It’s indisputable.

Not only that. Did Bill Gates claim some stupid ass story about helping someone was his goal? No. The popular origin story states he knew the computer was a goldmine and he wanted to get in on that. That exactly the type of story your quote hates on. It’s ridiculous.

If you don’t like the guy because of what he does now, I totally agree. But there’s no need to use fallacious techniques to promote stupidity. There’s plenty of good material out there on vaccines and pharmacy to hit him on directly.

You just should be aware of two things.

  1. I’m well educated on the history of the modern computer. Most of which I have not only researched but lived through.

  2. I’m even more sensitive to fallacious arguments. Proper debate is another strong interest of mine.

You’ve just simultaneously attempted to broach truth on both of those topics simultaneously. I’m not even saying this like as a warning as much as advice.

Really I’m just not the person you want to playing stupid games like that with.

Pulling some quote about eBay?!? I’ll eat you up on stuff like that every time. It’s not hard.

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