Gabe too.
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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoI 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.
ramble81@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are no good billionaires
David_Eight@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You don’t even know whether Gabe is or isn’t a billionaire.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
www.forbes.com/profile/gabe-newell/
luxurylaunches.com/…/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.ph…
If he wasn’t a billionaire it would be very simple, there are no good multi millionaires either!
0x0@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Daniel Stenberg seems like a nice guy.
Omniraptor@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Richard stallman was right about everything
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let’s note that necrophilia with mutual agreement (pre-mortem, and same with cannibalism) and incest with mutual agreement (between adults) are fucked up, but should be defended. Animals can’t consent, children can’t consent, so not that.
That - yeah.
Believing in discourses and narratives without understanding that they are never real is bad.
You can believe only in what you see with your own eyes since inception and till death.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I had never heard that about him. That’s disappointing.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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… 😁😛
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You could, but the OP is talking about the people who became filthy rich or at least notable. I don’t know if Tom ever made any real money. Almost all of the people listed used their corporate power to smash competition and dominate the market.
If anything, Stallman is the antithesis of most of these people.
exu@feditown.com 3 weeks ago
What he did is important, but he’s definitely an asshole as well
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Old captain crunch is another one that turned out to be a weirdo
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I think you have that backwards.
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
While at the sametime being a gross person.