"bill gates is an evil supervillain" was so culturally pervasive it bled into normal prime-time tv shows, and was nearly fever pitch among a lot of the (particularly open-source) technology community for a very long time, into almost a bizarre zealotry. None of the modern stuff is equivalent
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Even if you can argue that Musk has haters, he also has super fans, which Gates definitely did not.
The Plot to Get Bill Gates https://a.co/d/8cLZpGK
This is pretty much a core tenant of Apple with iOS, but people praise them for doing it.