I'm in a generation and country where I can't imagine why people would have hated Bill Gates.

Are there anyone from the other generation who hated Bill Gates then and now? Who hated him them and not now? Who didn't hate him then and now?

Any thoughts?

Country in the sense. Where I don't find regular people knowing about Mac os or Linux at all.

The problem for most people isn't Bill... It's microsoft... Most popular software, highly expensive and full of bugs for more then 25 years

@RodrigoF I heard even MacOs or whatever there was was also slower? Probably less buggy?

I don't hate him but I strongly dislikes the way he made Microsoft work. We live in a world where we should help each other and share knowledge but instead Microsoft locks their operating system and most software in general down and does not give access to the source or anything. Is that what we want? Do we want freedom to stop at computer level? I think you should be free to (does not mean that you have to, just means having the option) to modify and any operating system or software to suit your needs.

Bill gates himself seems to be a pretty nice guy though.

Final note, in an era where companies are forced to put backdoors in their products, I'm for sure not going to trust a closed source operating system with my personal data!

@linuxxx free software is good. I agree. But, I sure think that if humans don't find money in short term (3 years or so) they'd stop working for it. Just look at communism. It promised heaven but no money. I'd say a balance of both is good.

And even macOS is propietary. Should we hate it too. It just happened to be built on an opensource one, Linux became popular and coincidentally (the UNIX history) most of the tools for devs became same (not literally).

@linuxxx I do agree with the last paragraph though. I'd prefer open source vetted software. So go #Signal (OpenWhisperSystems) and down with #Whatsapp and #facebook. They are evil. I don't know why I trust Google. Maybe because their motto is #dontbeevil? 🙃😜

@analogbits Hey yet another Signaller? (and yep I'm anti WhatsApp as well)

@linuxxx if that's the case, how would you describe Apple?

@billgates about the same really

@linuxxx not worse? At least no one needs to jailbreak Windows?

@billgates So you have root (kernel level) access on windows...? Nope.

@linuxxx I'm in some worse living conditions right now. Else, I'm planning to go Whonix or Arch as soon as I get back home (I have Ubuntu now). I live in a shitty hostel with no Ethernet!(Arch installation with WiFi was pain in the arse) I'm trying to go off grid as soon as possible. Not like I am on a grid, I'm from India.

Do you know #protonmail? It's great. Does what I need in a mail. You don't need a curated mail If you don't put you email wherever you see a form. Or learn to create aliases.

@linuxxx like being able to decompile Windows 'source code? Guess not... But honestly, who had the time to read thru all that code?

I've actually never find contributing to OSS appealing as takes forever just to understand a small part of the code... I remember reading some Apache source code once and just went WTF? No idea how this works or where to start... I give up.

@analogbits I know protonmail yes! Don't use it but I use a very similar service called Tutanota(.com) :)

@billgates Yeah that's what I meant haha. It's not about if you would have the time, it's about if you have the option :).

@billgates And that you don't find contributing appealing doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to contribute 😉

@linuxxx options... Although I'm trying to be bill gates.... You know, I'd like the option to retire right now.... Care to give me a few million $$$$$ 😇

Also I wrote this yesterday...
“Choice Overload” https://medium.com/@allanx2000/...