We've had this trope before - Andrew Carnegie, for example. Gates is just copying the idea...
Honestly, the company he built makes some good stuff, and also makes a lot of trouble for everyone else. The Embrace/Extend/Extinguish methodology which was created under Gates is something that anyone working in infrastructure is going to be fighting for the next 30 years, and it's holding innovation back. Does anyone out there love IE6, or Active Directory? Both are primary examples of this.
I don't hate Gates. I just think that he did a great job of making money at the expense of others, and in ways that still hurt the industry today.
Paying penance after the fact doesn't excuse the original actions.
Honestly, the company he built makes some good stuff, and also makes a lot of trouble for everyone else. The Embrace/Extend/Extinguish methodology which was created under Gates is something that anyone working in infrastructure is going to be fighting for the next 30 years, and it's holding innovation back. Does anyone out there love IE6, or Active Directory? Both are primary examples of this.
I don't hate Gates. I just think that he did a great job of making money at the expense of others, and in ways that still hurt the industry today.
Paying penance after the fact doesn't excuse the original actions.