| > give 100s of thousands of people jobs Would have jobs with or without Gates > make PCs affordable for small businesses and common people Like I said before, Jobs and Wozniak did that, Jack Tramiel did that (even better than J&W). > then went on to give away enough to charity to become the greatest philanthropist in history He is the richest man in history. > the people who vilify him worship Steve Jobs False dichotomy alert! Not the case here. Jobs is flawed too. > done most of the things that have inspired such loathing when Microsoft did them Until now Apple is not guilty of monopoly abuse. Nothing even close to what Comes vs. Microsoft shows. > how evil Microsoft is on your Macbook Pro I use a Dell running Linux. At home I use an Acer. Running Linux too. |
Small nitpick, adjusted for inflation, no he isn't, not even close. Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt were all much richer. Also, it needs to be said that these were the richest Americans, not necessarily richest ever worldwide.