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EverHopeful

(533 posts)
7. Yes, better than Musk-Krasnov
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 02:02 PM
Jun 9

but it took years of criticism from many sources before he gave philanthropy even a passing thought. Most criticism I saw was in print versions of magazines (back in the old days which were, by the way, before Gates realized the internet would be a thing).

Criticism was that someone so rich wasn't doing what the very rich had done in the past.

When he finally got started, IIRC, most of his initial "Donations" involved giving computers that used MS products to schools so students would get used to them and ask parents to choose them when buying home computers.

He was so late to awareness of the importance of the internet that he ended up making the Windows OS even worse by trying to claim that IE was an integral part of it.

Apologies for my rant and there are more serious distortions of history to pay attention to but, having lived through so many of the awful things Gates has done, I always like to point out some of the history.

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