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.

  • Maerman@lemmy.worldOP
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    Yeah, I read that he was a nepo baby. Also, people say “But he dropped out of university to start Microsoft.”

    He dropped out of fucking Harvard. His life was easy as piss from the get-go.

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      Is everyone at Harvard a nepo baby or has definitely had an easy life? I don’t understand your argument.

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        It’s a reasonable assumption that a family that could send their child to Harvard in the 70s was very well off already.