Love how absolutely engorged and broken this web page is to dramatically depict a style that - were the article actually just published in plain text - would be what... a millionth the size? Should have known better than to be surprised that the "source code" one can "download" and "look through" is in a goddamned PDF.
I do truly wonder if the fact that he was publishing a PDF as downloadable "code" even caused him any pause lol.
You can’t even use reader mode on the site because of the text effect. It will cut off after the first few paragraphs since the others have the effect applied.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of the website, it's likely that the only way the code exists is that ream of paper. While Bill Gates could easily have bought an OCR reader to make a text file of it with the loose change in his couch, I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to just scan it in and provide that scan.
I do truly wonder if the fact that he was publishing a PDF as downloadable "code" even caused him any pause lol.