Ballmer was an idiot capitalist who only made exclusive deals to push windows rather than software advancement people actually wanted.
Nadella is doing the same thing but with AI and end user subscriptions.
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fistac0rpse@fedia.io 2 days ago
so, what's the general feeling? is Nadella a worse CEO than Ballmer?
Ballmer resulted in some good memes
Ballmer was an idiot capitalist who only made exclusive deals to push windows rather than software advancement people actually wanted.
Nadella is doing the same thing but with AI and end user subscriptions.
chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 days ago
I’d say overall Ballmer was still a worse technologist and business man.
robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 2 days ago
ballmer was much funnier and that’s the only distinction in ghouls that i can be arsed to care about.
chgxvjh@hexbear.net 2 days ago
What did we get?
Developers, developers, developers.
Linux is communism
Anything else?
robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 2 days ago
the ballmer peak
one time he was having a tantrum and threw a chair
huf@hexbear.net 2 days ago
he had an inherently funny shape, and he was called BALLmer
peak comedy without even trying