Bill Gates

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• May 2, 2000, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:

  What some people don't seem to understand is that we're not jealous of Bill's billions, we resent that he didn't actually earn it. If he had cured cancer or invented a car that ran on seawater he would deserve it, but he made his money through underhanded dealings and bullying and/or buying the competition. I had never heard that his mother was a personal friend with the IBM decision maker when he sold them DOS; software he simply bought from someone else, by the way. His basic motivation has been greed since day one, with a possible power trip fetish as a garnish. Evidence of this abounds; from his lack of any sizable charitable efforts, to his merciless vaporization of competitors, such as targeting Netscape to enable him to charge for the web browser in the future. The propaganda generated by Microsoft is another reason to hate them. As soon as a competitor announces or delivers a superior product in a market they desire, Microsoft immediately announces a better product that will be ...