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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say overall Ballmer was still a worse technologist and business man.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

ballmer was much funnier and that's the only distinction in ghouls that i can be arsed to care about.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What did we get?

Developers, developers, developers.

Linux is communism

Anything else?

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

the ballmer peak

one time he was having a tantrum and threw a chair

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago

he had an inherently funny shape, and he was called BALLmer

peak comedy without even trying