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Gates got lucky and owes 95% of his "success" to Apple and Steve Jobs. He was the first Pirate - let's steal someone else's technology, make it shittier but less expensive, and there ya go, pay me. Brilliant? Hardly. Gates' partner had the tech skills, Gates knew how to weasel his way into his parent's connections.
Timing IS everything so that helped him a lot. Other than that, fuck Bill Gates. If it wasn't for his wife he'd still be stealing other people's ideas and trying to use Microsoft's monopoly power to kill competition and force us all into his shitty Microsoft worldscape.
Besides, I bet 99% of his charity work is to ease his conscience, just like most zillionaires who got theirs through questionable methods. To some people if a person is rich they've "won" and no one can criticize them otherwise it's sour grapes. I don't find rich people to be Gods or Kings so owe no fealty to them.
Fuck Bill Gates.
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