mega-rich-light-bending-guy farquaad-point

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    The idea that Bill Gates left money on the table for others with Microsoft isn't just wrong, it's so exactly the opposite of reality that it boggles the mind. Did he leave money on the table for other DOSes with windows 95? For other office suites with MSOffice? For Netscape with bundled IE?

    I'm boggled over here.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      The same bootlicker also claimed that the same lord and savior billionaire making sure covid vaccines remained profitably unavailable was not a contradiction of that same "sharing profit" virtue, because... well no explanation was given, just that it wasn't a contradiction. morshupls

      • buckykat [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Normal people: mad about COVID vaccine patents

        Me: mad about the anticompetitive effects of Windows 95 on other versions of DOS and also COVID vaccine patents

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I didn't excuse the vaccine lobbying. You are stuck in your first judgment. If you want to nag me then it works because BG is no hero of mine.

      You are right about me caring about profits though. Logistics is everything. How do you want to create something without a positive resource balance?

      Still wondering, what's the entire point of OP's text? I guess you focus on the evil domination of evil corporations. How do you want to resolve it if not with small initiatives?

      This fucking galaxy brain.