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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by DKnoll on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:36AM (#18003466)
Suggesting the largest philanthropic donor in history (Bill Gates at 27 billion USD) is an asshole ('MS is now under a leader who isn't an asshole') seems like an oversimplification.
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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by isatty2 on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:23AM (#18004077)
I don't have the time to find the comment now, but being the largest philanthropic donor does NOT infact make up for being an asshole or the amount of damage microsoft has done to the computing industry.

Am I downplaying his donations? Not at all. It's just that doing a good thing does not cancel out the bad.

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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by DKnoll on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:37AM (#18004128)
Doing a good thing doesn't cancel out the bad, but I don't think it's fair to anonymously call people assholes on the Internet when they are actively trying, and succeeding, at doing good in the world. Especially when their sins are immaterial things like whatever damage you think MS did to the computer industry.
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