Actions speak louder than words. He facilitated great damage to the tech industry back then. Today, he uses his accumulated wealth to honestly try and fix several big problems on this planet, and he's very smart about doing it right. I say that if he deserved hate then, he deserves the praise now.
Unless your a doctor assistent in a undeveloped country using a old windows program ( which came with a dumped computer from a massive toxic rubbish tip curtosy from the 1st world) and about to loose all your life saving data because you cant upgrade and dont even know about having any upgrate.programmes ,apps arnt even available or being sold like Coca Cola everywhere at a relative price point.Plus some countries can use this copyright law very effectively against budding buisnesses and the programmes arnt actually sold legally in that poorer country anyway