Honestly, humans ought to be better than this outdated and questionable nature.

Right. That's why everyone here on HN cared as much about the black guys who get railroaded by overzealous prosecutors each year as they did about Aaron swartz and weev. Relating to people like yourself is a totally outmoded concept and doesn't serve any useful social purpose at all. That's why everyone is so happy that "world citizen" billionaires have overcome such trivialities like national loyalty and figured out how to export American prosperity all over the world. We totally love that.

I sincerely hope it doesn't stop there and counts down to the complete cleansing of the world from the filth that is IE.

And how exactly are you going to output more quality without more working? Can someone please explain this to me?

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Thank you for this very enlightening post.

Would not have downvoted if it weren't for your username.

Good point :)

What a terrible joke. We are talking about a company that if left unchallenged, would have destroyed everything free and open source stands for. For what? For utterly selfish domination. Microsoft is rotten to the core from the very beginning. They didn't started for making "better stuff". "That doesn't matters" to them. And they proved many times that they haven't changed at all.

If being dark lord of the evil empire is what you want, you would follow in his steps. Beware of the jedi order that is 'us' though.

Let's put that another way: if you're not afraid of being seen as the dark lord of an evil empire in order to get what you want (which, in Gates' case, seems to be "billions of dollars to solve the most important problems the world has to offer") then you should follow in his footsteps.

In other words, if you have world-changing vision, and want to succeed on a truly massive scale, you probably have to Think Like A Supervillain (http://dirtsimple.org/2009/02/everything-i-needed-to-know-ab..., http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp7/think_like_a_supervillain/).

If you are destroying a part of the world to fix another, you are not good. You may be evil even. Because you are selfishly choosing the part to fix, in expense of the part you destroy. If you are good, you should do no evil, or at least strive to.