Exhibit #1 why Hexbear/Lemmygrad are unpopular: this guy

I believe you’ve answered your own question.

Lemmy isn’t Marxist-only. The majority of Lemmy users are what the more vocal Lemmygrad and Hexbear users deride as “libs.” As a thought experiment, imagine that you are one of us for a moment and then browse Local on one of those.

Naw, we just buy ones where the lattice is diagonal.

In other words, we install X Windows.

Ask to borrow his lighter, light up a smoke, and then talk about classic cars. Now you’re friends.

It has one. It’s called evil-mode.

Don’t anthropomorphize computers.

They don’t like it.

It’s 4chan. If you don’t throw in casual racism into every post they label you a lib and make fun of you.

Sure, but that’s how business works when you’re as big a company as Microsoft. And he was good at it.

I never said he was a nice guy, only that he was good at business.

That part of it, sure, but the guy was good at business and made some smart bets (that the microcomputer industry would explode, for one). Microsoft didn’t get as big as it has based only on their technical ability. They got there because they made the right decisions and were cutthroat against their competitors.

Bill was at the right time and right place, but he was also the right guy. You gotta have them all.