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I'm still trying to figure out if Bill Gates is good or evil.
Gates made his money off monopolizing technology. You can find memos where he specifically leveraged his contacts with manufacturers to ignore specifications (which Microsoft helped specify) so FOSS like Linux wouldn't work properly.
I truly believe in a world without Microsoft that todays software would be much safer, private and advanced by quite a few years.
Gates only became a philanthropist after he married, there's probably a very good reason she left, even excluding the Epstein connections.
And he's largely responsible for the "licensing" model for commercial software, ensuring we'll never actually own software we pay for. So not surprising at all he used 'scorched earth' tactics to impede the Foss movement.
There are no good billionaires.
Totally evil. His vaccine campaigns (covid and before) have the sole purpose to legitimize copyrights on life saving medicine and he gets the power to decide who lives and who dies. And he uses this to optimize for good headlines like "malaria extinguished in region X" where X is a region with barely any malaria in the first place but it sounds better than "medicine send to where it's needed most according to real experts" which is a region with a high rate and you will barely lower it but rather control which makes more sense but less headline. I hope I'm making sense.
I thought the Gates Foundation was almost universally deemed to be helping people.
I guess I put the "almost" into that. If you're open to join me, in addition to what I've linked to in another comment, check out this video
I'd like to see some factual reporting on this
Google "Bill Gates Covid patents" First hit is a payed PR result saying how he has reversed course (fucking eyeroll)
Second result is this Politico article
I remember listening to a Citations Needed Podcast episode, I guess it's this one and a Thought Slime video