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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    Its not black and white to you but people have different values so him throwing billions of dollars at charity does not effect his choice to buy up farm land and potentially ruin innovation in the computing space.

    These are not my opinions just saying why someone would act like it is black and white

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        I suppose I did see “ABAB” so I suppose you would be talking about those comments and I agree that is infuriating

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          It’s just every thread man, every one of them devolves into it and I’m so tired. It’s quite literally like the Good Place where even the act of buying a tomato will get people raging in the comments about how apparently you support climate change, slavery, and every other bad thing involved in the growing of it. Or, hear me out, I just bought a tomato. I’m just so tired of it here

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            I’m just so tired of it here

            Have you tried asking a mod to unlock your prison cell and let you leave?

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            Maybe pick a billionaire that wasn’t a frequent flyer of the Lolita Express to have this epiphany.

            Seriously. He is a deeply bad evil person that paid a lot of money for propaganda, and you fell for it.