• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Aside from anticompetitive actions, I don’t see much harm having been done by selling an operating system.

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      8 months ago

      Did he code it all by himself? Or give the profits to the programmers in direct proportion to how much they worked on it?

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        8 months ago

        I’m not saying Wozniak didn’t get fucked by their dealings or that CEO to Worker pay rate is justifiable, but they’re a lot better off than most. Wozniak is working as a US treasury and defence contractor and he likes to sell uncut pages of bills to strangers for fun, man is worth at least 120 Million USD.

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            8 months ago

            Ah, shit, you’re right. Yeah I’ve never even heard of a disgruntled Microsoft programmer, I guess Paul Allen? But he still got 60-40 split with Gates even after Allen left to deal with cancer. Then there is Charles Simonyi who is also quite affluent after moving on to bigger and better things.

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      8 months ago

      Aside from anticompetitive actions

      “Aside from 95% of the shit he did, I don’t see much harm from the other 5%.”

      Bill Gates’ anticompetitive behavior probably set the entire computing industry back a decade or more.

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        8 months ago

        Lol, as if. Computing industry limitations are still dictated by Hardware, which has advanced at the same rate it would have without Windows. Plus, the vast majority of servers run Linux, anyways, so all he did was be one of three or four firms that helped bring computing into people’s homes when otherwise it would have required more technical skills than anybody had in that time period.