So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I kinda compare it to semi truck weigh stations. I found out some time ago that if the math works out that a truck got from one weigh station to another too fast the driver can get a speeding ticket since its assumed they broke the law getting there. Apply that to money. If a person accumulates too much money, it should just be assumed that person broke laws getting it and they should be severly fined (like, most of it).

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They're not assuming anything, they are doing calculus.

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

For the record, i literally said "if the math works out" 😁

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm a little disappointed this wasn't a link to the film strip we saw in high school. The cop drawling "Now this here is Rolle's theorem..." is classic.

Edit: https://vimeo.com/101691769

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Aw, that makes me sad that I never got that. We just had the example in our textbook be a cop at a tollway.