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the Fundation, the "giving pledge", the "benefactors" crew, donations, "Dementia Discovery Fund", "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge", and his books: you can try to fix it, but to me it all sounds a way to hide your original sin and the embarrassment you feel realizing that with some simple tricks you made tons of $$$: how can you stand it compared to the effort your maid is doing everyday to please you? I do not like it, and it feels sick.


In the grand stream of entropy we call computing, the Gates age of Microsoft was bunnies and cuddles compared to the Apple/Google/FB clstrfck of platform restrictions, police-state tattling, and info-rape.

In the current age, Obama got a peace prize for killing fewer Brown people than the last guy. In the current age, Bill is a saint.


yes, I understand the hyperbole: there's always somebody who's got it way, way worse...


Given that time travel is not a possibility, what _would_ you like Bill Gates to do? Sit on his billions and do nothing?


first: I would like him (his will and money) to go back to what he broke instead of changing the room: the huge worldwide diffusion of such a bad o.s. had enormous consequences and it still has...




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