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What about a list of things Bill Gates did to build Microsoft, and the positive results of those achievements? It's a huge list, and it's the one that people should use to assess him morally.

For example, there is huge value in standardization: having one platform that most people use at a given time saves a ton of porting effort. Same with the backward compatibility: I know several people that still get a lot of value from DOS applications. And look at the price of software over the last 30 years, adjusted for inflation. Microsoft helped bring those prices down and make these technologies more available to people.




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