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Throughout the 90s Microsoft was the company equivalent of a serial killer, so Gates had to really step up his public relations. Goldfish-brained liberal techies ate it up, and love him now.
Many are new blood having no idea what Microsoft used to be. Add to that the modern good-guy MS face, funding (usefu for theml) open source and all that, and it gets difficult to convey how things used to be.
you know that batman quote "you either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain"? well with billionaires its backwards apparently, you throw enough money on PR campaigns and you're literally worshipped