alt Hacker NewsBill Gates was always a POS, reading about his behaviour earlier on doesn't make him seem in any way virtuous. The whole 'charity' persona he put on afterwards is just PR.
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a96 • yesterday at 11:46 AM
Same with Jobs, but without the charity.
Woz, maybe he actually was a nerd.
jimbokun • yesterday at 3:34 PM
> The whole 'charity' persona he put on afterwards is just PR.
What do you mean by "persona"? Do you mean he's not really giving money away?
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locknitpicker • yesterday at 11:55 AM
> The whole 'charity' persona he put on afterwards is just PR.
Indeed. Even in the middle ages rich people leaned heavily on charity to whitewash their legacy. I mean, the Catholic church even made this accessible to the masses through indulgence.
Gates was (is) definitely a huge nerd. Much more than most of the people here.
He was also the poster boy for tech nerd assholes, until the scale of tech assholery shifted wildly for the worse, and he switched to legacy building mode.