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Batting for Billionaires (lemmy.ml)
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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 64 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

you know that batman quote "you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain"? well with billionaires its backwards apparently, you throw enough money on PR campaigns and you're literally worshipped

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.