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Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violently enforce his "intellectual property". He didn't created a computer revolution, he destroyed one.
Zuckerberg made his money in the exact same way, of course – by destroying an free social network. A social network was bound to emerge, what Zuckerberg did was prevent it from following open protocols, like email, so just anyone couldn't set up a server to socialize with anyone.
To say these people added value to the world and therefore "deserve" their billions is absurd. They subtracted value, an enormous amount of value, and stymied progress to seize control and extract wealth. Computers and the internet would be more advance if they had never existed.
Was it bound to emerge in a broadly accepted form though? My memories of turn off the century internet community are fond, but I don't remember it as a space that necessarily had the genesis of mass participation within.
The BBS sites in the early 90s did
the latest Weeds podcast had Anil Dash on as a guest to talk about exactly this - 'the internet we lost'. rather scathing takedowns of zuckerberg included
Bill Gates Tried to Screw Paul Allen cofounder of Microsoft:.. though limited by my illness, and now my partner and my colleague were scheming to rip me off. It was mercenary opportunism, plain and simple, Harold Evans, charges that Gates essentially stole the DOD software.
Trying to believe this requires a few too many leaps.
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