What Do You Dislike Most About Bill Gates?
Bill Gates (founder of mega-corporations Microsoft and The Gates Foundation) has had enormous impacts on government, the economy, education and philanthropy. What do you think Gates' worst impacts on society are?
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The way he ruthlessly stifles competition. A greater number of competitive operating systems would stimulate innovation. In a world where Windows is the only "one size fits all" solution available, stagnation is inevitable.
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That Monopoly Thing
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Windows Vista
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Making Windows the dominant operating system
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The way he is using his vast wealth to dink around with the organization and operation of our public schools.
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He requires hardware manufacturers to get his "seal of approval" for use in his operating systems.
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Can't innovate if his life depended on it.
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Windows is virus and spyware prone
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Exploiting children around the world
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Exploiting medical research
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Exploiting AIDS
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Exploiting Africa
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Meddling in public education - another thing Gates knows nothing about
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Phony "philanthropy"
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Corrupt political connections
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Ripping off American workers
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Ripping off his own customers
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Gates' contempt for the laws the rest of us have to live by
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The fact that his wife and business partner (Warren Buffett) sit on the Washington Post's board of directors
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Billysoft's role in ruining Seattle
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