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The PowerShell Manifesto Radicalized Me (medium.com)

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[–] ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Let’s savor this one more time: Bill Gates walked into the meeting “riding high” because he acquired patents for malaria treatments. Reality beats satire every time.

[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who was "him" that Bill says was fucked?

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Presumably whoever was in charge of .NET? Weird writing around that.

[–] sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

The podcast source transcript has more context. Apparently "him" was whoever was in charge of MSBNx, an unrelated, Bayesian Network thing, which Bill Gates was also obsessed with.

[–] netvor@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That sounds really evil, esp. if you already have low expectations and it's not like I'm going to defend ol'Bill, but...

Do we know what he used the patents for?

Acquiring patent sounds like you want to use it as a gold mine by manufacturing the product for "best" price, which is pretty heinous, especially when it's in conflict with saving lives. But in principle it could be the opposite. One could, entirely for altruistic reasons acquire a patent from someone with the intent to make the cure more affordable.

I mean, I don't like Bill but let's be honest, he's no RFK Jr.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Considering they pressured the AstraZenica vaccine to not be open source I am biased against believing it was alturism.

[–] ztwhixsemhwldvka@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Fair point, I don't know the details of Bill Gates philanthropy