• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.

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      17 hours ago

      you know that batman quote “you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain”? well with billionaires its backwards apparently, you throw enough money on PR campaigns and you’re literally worshipped

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      15 hours ago

      Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.