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I discovered that Bill Gates monopolized ACPI in order to break Linux

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Re: I discovered that Bill Gates monopolized ACPI in order to break Linux

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Post by sitkack » Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 10:52 PM UTC

whobre wrote: post #10

sitkack wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firing senior employees Taking over the dev ecosystem with VSCode and purchasing Github. Microsoft has direct daily access to over 40% of the worlds developers. Firing the entire Faster CPython team. Microsoft never changed, they just got wise.

Nothing to do with Gates, though.

It does, It is the same Microsoft that Gates created. It is Gates.

Re: I discovered that Bill Gates monopolized ACPI in order to break Linux

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Post by hulitu » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 6:22 AM UTC

ggm wrote: post #4

Microsoft of now 25 years later has a different posture to Linux and open source. Bill Gates of now 25 years later has a different posture to the world and is distributing 200b to Africa and emerging economy development and health. Yea, he was an asshole. Still may be. He isn't the Antichrist.

> Microsoft of now 25 years later has a different posture to Linux and open source.

Yeah, right. They released Program Manager and Pinball as open source. Quite a different posture to Linux. /s

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