What is wrong with this man--?
The Freudian slips are ridiculous. I'm grateful, of course, he is still permitted to speak publicly-- I just can't figure out how he (for the most part) is getting away with this crap.
If you want my .02 cents, I think people see him with a "halo effect", or Wikipedia's synonym for it, and I think rightfully so for this case, is "
halo error". It goes to show you what decades of marketing, or
framing can do to make something or someone been seen in a positive light.
Back in the mid '80s when the Internet wasn't around, he and his company were seen as Macintosh's rival, and it was then he was seen as the "underdog" for bringing their interface to convert the MS-DOS computers and called it Microsoft Windows. At the time, Bill was viewed as a "nerdy computer hero" who was soooo smart that he didn't even need to finish college because MS-DOS was somewhat convoluted, and as I recall, needed lots of disks to operate for word processing. No one at the time knew that he was diabolical psychopath, with rich parents and
stole operating systems from other emerging companies in order to make MS Windows and Microsoft what it is today.
The fact that he's in his early '60s and still maintains the optics of a nerd, with his high-pitched voice, big glasses, sweaters and awkward hand gestures, people think he's actually doing good things for humanity as I've had a couple of people either in disbelief or upset to find out what he's really about when I tell them the harm
and death he's caused to the thousands of children in India and Africa.