Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Going back even further is assholes like Edison

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s easier to name the people who have been decent in tech. Woz seems like a decent guy.

  Ted Waite all in all was decent. Not perfect but decent.

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  • Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Richard stallman was right about everything

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stallman is a notable figure in the industry but he was never the leader of a large tech company. That’s probably why he’s a decent guy

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He was a big defender of paedophilia, necrophilia, incest, and bestiality. He thinks people should have the right to fuck their pets or their children. Not to mention the reports on his creepy behaviour with women.

        Stallman is an incredible steward of FOSS, but he is not a decent guy overall.

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      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The FSF isn’t exactly what you think of when you hear the words “large tech company”… but you could argue that in some ways it is one couldn’t you… 😁😛

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      • exu@feditown.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What he did is important, but he’s definitely an asshole as well

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        he was never the leader of a large tech company. That’s probably why he’s a decent guy

        I think you have that backwards.

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    • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      While at the sametime being a gross person.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gabe too.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are no good billionaires

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      • David_Eight@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t even know whether Gabe is or isn’t a billionaire.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Daniel Stenberg seems like a nice guy.

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s hard to beat ignoring doctors and not treating your very treatable form of cancer, then using your wealth to get a liver transplant and then dying anyway. Dude committed manslaughter because of his own arrogance.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bill Gates was a huge piece of shit in his heyday, rivalling the Zuckerberg and Musks of today,

  Bill Gates was a ruthless businessman destroying competition but as far as I know he didn’t support fascists or facilitate pogroms.

  Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter has done far more harm to our societies than whatever shady tactics Bill Gates used.

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not to take away from Zuckerberg, Musk, and the less-known people in tech like Thiel, but Bill Gates was and is a huge piece of shit who harmed more than just his competitors. Among other things he convinced the world that we need IP and patents for covid vaccines instead of sharing them freely, which alone cost countless lives around the world. I don’t even want to know what other ills his “philanthropy” has and will cause. newrepublic.com/…/bill-gates-impeded-global-acces…

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  • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gates and Jobs both are responsible for consumer based computing. Proprietary software lynched what should have been a global birth of inventive software engineers.

    The crap that Zuck shills had its groundwork laid by those two.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Proprietary software lynched what should have been a global birth of inventive software engineers.

      That actually happened. Just wasn’t perpetuated after 1995 or something.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before Microsoft, programmers were treated like factory workers by HP and IBM and setup in large open floor rooms like a secretary pool from the 1960’s. Gates thought programmers were important and gave every programmer a private office.

  Gates did dirty tricks to competitors even to tiny ones they could have bought out (stacker). But he was never Musk’s level of evil.

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• Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Adding to that, Bill Gates put quite some effort into image building and mostly succeeded.

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