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The road ahead reaches a turning point in 2024 – Bill Gates (gatesnotes.com)
4 points by samizdis on Dec 19, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Every time I read Bill Gates's writings he seems to me as a reasonable guy.

But in reality he's one of the kings of a closed-source software which is defective by design because of limiting user's ability to learn something from their sources. BG can go in history as a really great man but to achieve that he needs to grant sources of Windows 7 to the FOSS community, it will value to the society more than megabytes of good thoughts, speaches, meeting and even donations to some good real-life projects such as Medicine in the third world.


... needs to grant sources of Windows 7 to the FOSS community ...

Windows 7. "Peak Windows".




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