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Nah - it's easy to understand the Gates Foundation

Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 04:43 PM EDT

Eh. Too cynical. The projects I've seen are actually
geared towards helping large numbers of people at a low
cost. They are not investment opportunities - and some of
them might have a real impact.

(Of course, sacrificing 10B out of a xxB fortune and getting
some respect out of it isn't exactly painful...even better
if it gives your wife something to do. There's not really
much else you can do with excess money. I suspect that he's
making good use of his fortune - probably more effectively
than most other philanthropists.)

Gates never struck me as pure evil - selfish, yes, win at
most costs, yes, really lousy OS, yes (10 thousand times*),
but not pure evil. Ellison, on the other hand, would spend
that cash on an island. I'm kind of hoping that M$ blows
Oracle out of the water at some point.

--Erwin
*From talking to some people, my suspicion is that much of
Windows can be explained by the hypothesis that M$ really
never figured out how to program or manage projects
properly.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Backwards - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT
Sorry, but I have a different perspective... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT
- Sorry, but I have a different perspective... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 06:11 PM EDT
  - Definition of Philanthropy - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 06:43 PM EDT
    - Definition of Philanthropy - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 07:34 PM EDT
      - Ahh.... perspective - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 09:17 PM EDT
        Ahh.... perspective - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 10:49 PM EDT
        Sure..... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 12:17 AM EDT
        The problem is the things he keeps for himself - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 04:13 PM EDT
        Man Fish Proverb - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 11:13 AM EDT
        ROFL - n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 04:30 PM EDT
      - Definition of Philanthropy - Authored by: PJ on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 05:28 PM EDT
  - ROI on giving away M$ S/W is similar to SPAM... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 07:15 PM EDT
- Sorry, but I have a different perspective... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 07:24 AM EDT
  - Sorry, but I have a different perspective... - Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 08:32 AM EDT
  - A Clue for the Uninitiated? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 07:37 AM EDT
Nah - it's easy to understand the Gates Foundation - Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Friday, June 22 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT
- Nah - it's easy to understand the Gates Foundation - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 01:19 PM EDT
  - Nah - it's easy to understand the Gates Foundation - Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT

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