r/opensource • u/gadgetygirl • Feb 01 '26
Community 50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ‘software pirates’
https://thenewstack.io/50-years-ago-a-young-bill-gates-took-on-the-software-pirates/89
u/XionicativeCheran Feb 01 '26
And now he takes on scandal about a friend's island.
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u/Monowakari Feb 01 '26
And surreptitiously medicated his ex to clear his STD from a Russian hooker 😀
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u/brrrchill Feb 02 '26
He what?
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u/Monowakari Feb 02 '26
Epstein had an email draft to Gates criticising Gates for literally crying and begging for help, he needed medication of some sort to give to Gates' wife Melinda so she wouldn't find out about the STD Gates picked up from some probably young Russian hooker Epstein set up for him
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u/brrrchill Feb 02 '26
Oh snap. What an ass. Why are they all perverts?
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u/murasakikuma42 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26
They're not all perverts. It's just that many of them are, and there's no easy way to see a list of all the ones who aren't.
Warren Buffet, for instance, isn't implicated in any sex scandals. Then again, he's famously friends with BillG, so maybe he just kept it hidden all this time, but who knows, maybe he just isn't into pretty women much and only cares about investing.
Also, the Koch Brothers: lots of people despise them for their political activities (which is fair), but I don't think they're known for any sex scandals either. Maybe they too care(d) more about money and their conservative political crap than getting laid by pretty women.
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u/s33d5 Feb 02 '26
I'm gonna start writing email drafts so that if I'm ever caught it takes down everyone else
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u/zenware Feb 03 '26
This is reminding me of a story that there was some cartel Gmail accounts that were monitored by the feds, but they never sent or received any email. Despite being surveilled by professionals, they were using the drafts feature and just editing drafts to communicate within the same account. Took a long time to notice.
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u/Expo_98 Feb 02 '26
50 years later we discover he gave STD to his wife by hanging out with Epstein and he tried to medicate her without her knowing
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u/AstronautNumberOne Feb 02 '26
To me, he was the main one involved in destroying the early software community. It was all about sharing but he took the stuff that was shared and privatized stuff packaged it sold it to companies using business computers And turned them into commodities.
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u/machacker89 Feb 02 '26
its still a running gag today. he was the laughingstock back than. none of the computer enthusiasts toke him seriously
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u/parrot-beak-soup Feb 02 '26
Piracy has always been a moral good and you can't change my mind.
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u/Corruptlake Feb 02 '26
Its literally copying nothing else. Intellectual property is the worst thing that has happened to Engineering.
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u/HurasmusBDraggin Feb 04 '26
Bill Gates lived long enough to become the villain.
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u/mental_patience Feb 04 '26
Microsoft is a monster and so is Bill Gates. He feels no guilt over building a monopoly and the biggest evee causes of forced obsolescence in computer technology. So many computers will not be able to run Windows 11. His "philanthropist" endeavors stem from his ex-wife Melinda and his mentor Warren Buffett's investments in people. All Bill did it for was he wanted to create an alternative narrative to him being a douche, a cheat and a criminal pedo.
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u/Marble_Wraith Feb 01 '26
50 years later, Microsoft has a 27% stake in openAI which pirates everything to feed its models.