Gates made his money off monopolizing technology. You can find memos where he specifically leveraged his contacts with manufacturers to ignore specifications (which Microsoft helped specify) so FOSS like Linux wouldn’t work properly.
I truly believe in a world without Microsoft that todays software would be much safer, private and advanced by quite a few years.
Gates only became a philanthropist after he married, there’s probably a very good reason she left, even excluding the Epstein connections.
And he’s largely responsible for the “licensing” model for commercial software, ensuring we’ll never actually own software we pay for. So not surprising at all he used ‘scorched earth’ tactics to impede the Foss movement.
Gates made his money off monopolizing technology. You can find memos where he specifically leveraged his contacts with manufacturers to ignore specifications (which Microsoft helped specify) so FOSS like Linux wouldn’t work properly.
I truly believe in a world without Microsoft that todays software would be much safer, private and advanced by quite a few years.
Gates only became a philanthropist after he married, there’s probably a very good reason she left, even excluding the Epstein connections.
And he’s largely responsible for the “licensing” model for commercial software, ensuring we’ll never actually own software we pay for. So not surprising at all he used ‘scorched earth’ tactics to impede the Foss movement.