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Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by logicchains on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:15AM (#22898678)
>Bill Gates strikes me as someone who will be a villian to society as he ages.

To a lot of people who were in tech in the '90s, he was also a villain to society when he was younger.

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Re:How the coronavirus is driving new surveillance programs ... by wolco on Friday April 17, 2020 @12:36PM (#22900471)
He was but really he had more of a commercial mindset that was against level playing fields and against free software. It didn't make him evil but not a role model either. Now that his imagine has changed and he is playing with medicine buying off the news he is more dangerous to everyone.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundat...

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