So I just read Bill Gates’ 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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      17 hours ago

      *oligarchical pig

      Capitalism is just free competition, which is the opposite of what Bill Gates is for.

      In a communist economy he would be the same pig.

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        12 hours ago

        Capitalism always lead to monopolies and a lack of competition. At some point one company will always get lucky and be able to use its money to completely destroy competition, especially small competition.