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Have you seen the reactions to the billg AmA's on reddit? They love this guy. Obviously it's all super-engineered by some very crafty PR firm.

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These nonsense comments smack of a personal agenda that is more concerned with hating him because he has money than anything to do with this article, which is the point of discussion here. Gates' Reddit AMA response and how much money he has is irrelevant in the context of an article about Nadella's leadership of a Microsoft nearly two decades after his departure.

What about these comments of mine are nonsense, in your optionion? Please clarify in detail.

I'm not hating at Bill Gates for having money. I'm hating at him because he abused the market and set us back. We would have been so much further by now in terms of software development if it hadn't been for him.

People hating Bill Gates have always been a minority. I was a Mac user on the late 90s internet, and "Windows rules!" was the theme of the day. The less technically savvy had even less reason to hate him.

The people who think he set things back horribly are not a majority of the general public in any age group.

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