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    I find it hard to square the thoughtful philanthropist Bill Gates with the guy who wanted to kill the open web and force the entire world to use Windows and Internet Explorer. Did he really change or are we just seeing the results of really good PR?

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    • My understanding is that he changed, and it was quite a long time ago, too.monospaced
    • I also think there's room to be both a bona fide globally renowned philanthropist AND a hardcore capitalist with the desire to destroy all competitionmonospaced
    • Well to be fair it's easy to be a renowned philanthropist when you have a gazillion dollars to spend. I feel like it's hard to get a good perspective whenyuekit
    • so much money is being thrown around. The recent Netflix documentary for instance.yuekit
    • Well then there you have it. He is both :)monospaced
    • apple tried to license all video and killed flash. they had that shitty plugin... of the 2 big OS companies i think windows has given more
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    • they even bought into apple to keep them alive
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