hakesterman :
Mr. Zuckerberg, Bill Gates might as well still be your Hero because the path he took to became a millionaire was a lot tougher and more work than what you did. And Bill has never hidden his money to avoid taxes like you have either.
Concerning the last part of your post... You sure about that? You can say a lot of things about Microsoft under Bill Gates' leadership, but "there were no shady business practices engaged in" is not one of them. I love the guy for the charity he does but, I refuse to believe that Bill Gates was above doing some black magic with his taxes.
Also, I really have neither like/use facebook nor do I have any idea how much work Zuckerberg actually put into making it, but... One could well argue that Microsoft was as much a case of "a good idea at the right time with the right partner" rather than "incredibly hard work and genius together" or some such. They were hardly the only company working on GUI operating systems at the time and some who weren't were on the verge of doing so, so it wasn't some stroke of novel genius that MS brought to the world. A GUI OS would have been around not long after Windows if Windows hadn't become the big fish in the sea. More likely, they were one in a pack that rocketed ahead because of their alliance with Intel and that allowed them to leverage that dominance in a fledgling market that benefitted from a unified OS and establish a monopoly.
Simply put, I *love* some of MS's recent products and their mobile philosophy, but I find trying to paint them - or Bill Gates - as saints or geniuses as stupid as trying to paint them as the nincompoops that many do these days.
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