How many of your friends believe that you, being the computer fan which you are, will idolise Bill Gates as some sort of nerd god?
Why do the public not realise how much nerds hate Bill Gates? Is it their use of Microsoft products or the media they watch, listen to and read?
Think how much praise Gates receives over his philanthropy, despite the business tactics he used to get this money he donates, but how little they criticise him for the anti-trust lawsuits etc.
Her Majesty awarded Gates a KBE, which you would have thought would have been controversial due to the lawsuits which were in progress at the time. No major news outlets found it concerning and many were indeed worried that we didn’t have a British Bill!
How many nerds admire Bill Gates or Microsoft? Nerds have hated Gates ever since An Open Letter to Hobbyists and whilst I admire him trying to reach out to the computing community, he obviously could not relate!
Still most non-nerds regard Gates as the Nerd God probably because he’s the only person in the tech industry they’ve heard of (unless they read tech columns in their terribly non-Web 2.0 newspapers!).
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Same reason people live martha steward and donald trump, Because he made money ?
Thats the universal means of judging success for areas beyond your expertise
Of course, it is considered geek chic to like Gates but not really. See it as a kind of camp.
I’m a geek and I admire Bill Gates. Its popular for anti-Microsoft people to hate on Gates for stealing ideas back in the day, but Steve Jobs and Apple did the exact same thing. Microsoft may steal some of their ideas, but they also have the ability to perfect them (see C#/.NET compared to Java). Besides, re-imagining ideas is what helps the industry innovate. I don’t see how you can ignore Gates’ philanthropy, he’s giving away all of his money to charitable organizations. How many public figures do you know that are that selfless?
charitable organizations = publicity