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Fun to read along with this recent article

https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/a3n8ea/how-sierra-an...

which portrays early '90s Ken Williams as callous tool of the Man, in contrast to the the free-spirited hacker/entrepreneur version you get in the post's origin story. (I don't have any strong feelings or opinions about the accuracy of either portrayal)



Gates certainly sounds deplorable, but it’s interesting that one of the criticisms is:

”with Carey incinerating the killer—a cross-dressing man who is given about as much humanity and depth in this story as you'd expect”

despite this hit piece being little more than an exercise in denying Gates himself of any depth or humanity.


It's highly critical of Gates but that doesn't make it a 'hit piece' nor does it deny Gates depth or humanity. It just isn't very fond of his particular humanity.




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