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Sure, he's villainized because he aggressively forced his company's software on the world regardless of the poor quality and the negative effect it has had on essentially everyone. They bloodthirstily copied competing software to the pixel and bludgeoned innovators to death with it. I can't even calculate how much the simply poor ideas and execution of DOS/Windows has cost the computing world and everyone as a result.

If you go back to 1988, and compare a DOS machine to say, an Amiga - how could anyone say that Microsoft did the world good by ensuring that the primitive, clunky, non-user friendly junk that was DOS beat out the relatively amazing competition?

So, Gates shoved this awful crap on us to make himself rich, regardless of the consequences. I can't respect a software company that has never appeared to be concerned with or even understand software quality.