Bill Gates out here ragging on Musk about the fact that Musk has only ever bought companies and not built them like he did has me LOLOLOLING all over the place.
Bill: You stole yours. You didn't invent SHIT.
We remember.
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@hamishtpb @TheJen People need to go and watch the old Pirates of Silicon Valley movie. It’s kinda goofy at times but really makes it clear that Jobs and Gates were both a bit crooked. It’s one of my favorites.
@SeasonsChange@retro.pizza @TheJen@beige.party I hate that film for the reason that the silliness tends to distract from the horrible facts. It was telling the truth with "ooh aren't they cheeky lads!" overlaid - and the end result is what matters to too many people - well they made loads of money so they must have done something right.
Sorry for the bitterness but, well, y'know...
/me gestures at the tech world in the 2020's
@hamishtpb @TheJen No worries, I think that’s a fair observation. It’s a goofy, made for TV film made at the very end of the optimistic period of the 1990s. The world was a different place then. Time gives us the perspective to understand the full context of the film.
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He only managed that because his mommy was a big shot at IBM.
He did fuckall.
@TheJen@beige.party Been pointing out for decades what a couple of con-men and snake-oil salesmen Gates & Jobs were.
People never look into things. I doubt many Apple fans even know who Wozniak is these days.
Certainly almost no-one will know where "MS" BASIC came from when it was Gates first big product. Or the dirty deals he pulled to make "MS" DOS the de facto IBM OS, before he had even bought it.