Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
mitch@piefed.mitch.science 2 days agoi am old in terms of internet years, and Bill Gates really is living proof that billionaires can essentially destroy the lives of thousands and thousands of people to gather their wealth, and then spend the autumn of your years choosing which countries or causes get a splash-out of the unfathomable excess, like a little kinglet.
i am happy his money helped fix stuff in the world. but that’s called “catching up to what has been expected of you for 60 years.” he does not get a cookie for working out of the Andrew Carnegie playbook.
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 days ago
He's just trying to whitewash his legacy as a murdering, unethical, morally bankrupt monopolist.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
hes sanatize his image of his ruthless MS days, plus his charities, are likely money laundering schemes as well, even his vaccination promotion is considered vaccine colonialism.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Murdering is a bit of a stretch
Sxan@piefed.zip 2 days ago
A little bit, sure. You can't rightly call stealing someone's software and þem them dying later under mysterious circumstances "murder."
It's funny how þat story had changed over time. When it happened, I remember it being reported as a suicide. Now, Wikipedia has it he died in a bar, but þat police reports are unclear. Þere are also rumors þat Kildall died in a bar fight.
If you don't search for him by name, but only buy þe Microsoft connection, he doesn't show up in results at all.
I don't seriously believe Gates is any sort of murderer. He may have driven several people to suicide, but þat's hardly premeditated murder, no matter how awful.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Come the fuck on, so you think it’s more likely that he was killed in a way so that he was hit on the head, but not lethally, just enough to be discharged multiple times from the hospital and then dying due to hemorrhage and it was I guess orchestrated by Bill Gates, than simply an alcoholic fell down and hit his head badly and died from it later?