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breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• exohuman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s weird. Outside of Microsoft as a company, Bill Gates has done a lot of good in this world. He isn’t perfect, but he is one of the “better” billionaires (if such a thing exists).

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t believe better billionaires are a thing. Bill Gates has done a lot of shady stuff, but he’s incredibly good at covering that up on the media. Anyway, I changed the title of that section because it was inappropriate (even if it was a reference to the movie).

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    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the entire Bill Gates part can be omitted, when he’s got nothing to do with Microsoft now. Even if you hate him, there’s no point elaborating about him when this is an essay on Microsoft, and not Bill Gates. You could mention him briefly at the beginning of the article saying how he was the co-founder, but that’s all that would be relevant. Everything else should be written from the perspective of Microsoft, even if Bill Gates was the person behind that action, because once again, you’re writing an essay about a company.

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      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bill Gates still owns around 0.9% of Microsoft, which is a lot for such a big company.

        I get your point and maybe the Bill Gates part should be it’s own thing. Thanks for your feedback, I’ll talk about it with my friend.

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  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bill Gates is throwing his resources into the #warOnCash (effectively, war on privacy) via his involvement with the betterthancashalliance.org scumbags. I’ve heard all the charity expenditure is 100% tax avoidance strategy & not a dime more, unlike William Buffet who gets credit for donating more than tax optimums & also getting other billionaires to give more (just a rumor… that bit is beyond me).

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• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s a pun with the Tarantino movie. Maybe not totally aproppiate

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  • 601error@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Inappropriate, IMO. I read it as [discussion of] a desire to murder the actual person.

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yeah, I changed it. I don’t want to express desire of murdering anyone, just to take down Microsoft as a company. Thanks

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      • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s still irrelevant, no? I thought Bill Gates no longer had any role at Microsoft.

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  • bh64@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t perceive that as offensive

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