So I just read Bill Gates’ 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Where do you see that? That isn’t anywhere in your link. The only reference to AZ is that they partnered with one of the companies that Gates invested in.

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        His foundation owns stocks in Immunocore who is an Astra partner.

        Edit: immunocore does not own Astra that was a lazy read on my part

        • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          No they don’t dude. AZ doesn’t have a parent company. Immunocore has about 1 billion dollars in assets, AZ has about 100 billion. Stop making stuff up.

          • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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            15 hours ago

            My bad partner “Immunocore’s specialty, however, has been working in oncology. Its therapies induced industry giants including AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), GSK (NYSE:GSK) and Genentech to partner with the biotech over the years.”

            • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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              14 hours ago

              That’s completely different though. So they partner with all the big pharma companies, which makes sense given their research. Unless you think he’s secretly on the take from AZ (idk how you would even attempt to bribe Bill Gates), he does not benefit at all financially from the Oxford/AZ deal and there’s no sign of wrongdoing.