Re:World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this...
by sintaxi on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:37PM
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Did Bill Gates exploit you? Please explain how.
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Re:World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this...
by balthasar on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:55PM
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His wealth came from siphoning off profits from his employees and charging exorbitant prices for his products. The monopoly microsoft held was used to strangle smaller companies out of the market. None of these actions were directly targeted at me but the world is much larger than you or I.
Re:World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this...
by CaptSpify on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:56PM
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Yes
He used his power to push shitty and proprietary software into my industry, thus limiting the impact that properly developed software could have created. I had no choice in this and he used everything from back-room deals to flat out lies to achieve this.
Re:World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this...
by jacquesm on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @03:01PM
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> I had no choice in this and he used everything from back-room deals to flat out lies to achieve this.
And a couple of well documented crimes.