Discussion: Microsoft, Bill Gates, and all the rest of it

[StubleU]

yeah...actually...if you hadn't heard...Bill Gates retired as ceo of microsoft...so that he could do **** loads of more charity work...
http://www.gatesfoundation.org is his charity foundation...and some of the things he's done over the last few years are things like:

• $1 billion over 20 years to establish the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, which will support promising minority students through college and some kinds of graduate school.
• $750 million over five years to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, which includes the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, Unicef, pharmaceutical companies and the World Bank.
• $350 million over three years to teachers, administrators, school districts and schools to improve America’s K-12 education, starting in Washington State.
• $200 million to the Gates Library Program, which is wiring public libraries in America’s poorest communities in an effort to close the “digital divide.”
• $100 million to the Gates Children’s Vaccine Program, which will accelerate delivery of lifesaving vaccines to children in the poorest countries of the world.
• $50 million to the Maternal Mortality Reduction Program, run by the Columbia University School of Public Health.
• $50 million to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, to conduct research on promising candidates for a malaria vaccine.
• $50 million to an international group called the Alliance for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer.
• $50 million to a fund for global polio eradication, led by the World Health Organization, Unicef, Rotary International and the U.N. Foundation.
• $40 million to the International Vaccine Institute, a research program based in Seoul, South Korea.
• $28 million to Unicef for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus.
• $25 million to the Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation.
• $25 million to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, which is creating coalitions of research scientists, pharmaceutical companies and governments in developing countries to look for a safe, effective, widely accessible vaccine against AIDS.

here...an article about it all
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...15?hub=SciTech

[Rakka]

split from the MSN problem topic. Hating Microsoft is good in my book, but it doesn't help the original poster. But maybe this can be the venting thread

[StubleU]

Originally Posted by Rakka

split from the MSN problem topic. Hating Microsoft is good in my book, but it doesn't help the original poster. But maybe this can be the venting thread

it's not so much microsoft or bill hates that frustrates me...it's the ideology behind their applications...both in development practices and functionality...but i gotta admit...bill gates work through his foundation is pretty crazy cool

[Rakka]

the ideology behind their applications...their EULA and their DRM. However much Bill Gates donates, it's a tip of the iceberg and he still is an icon to anyone who believes that someone who happens to have more money is somehow a better, more deserving, person

[-+AĩŔ ĢũĩŧåЯ+-]

Originally Posted by Rakka

the ideology behind their applications...their EULA and their DRM. However much Bill Gates donates, it's a tip of the iceberg and he still is an icon to anyone who believes that someone who happens to have more money is somehow a better, more deserving, person

yea i was gonna say, they conviniently left out the huge amount that microsoft keep for themselves or.... 'product development'

[StubleU]

Originally Posted by -+AĩŔ ĢũĩŧåЯ+-

yea i was gonna say, they conviniently left out the huge amount that microsoft keep for themselves or.... 'product development'

actually the bill gates foundation is mostly his own earnings...microsoft has nothing to do with it

[Blindsided.]

haha the man's so rich.. he earns more money on interest than he could spend.. at that point in life I'd just give it all away o_O

[landdownunder]

Originally Posted by Still Broken.

haha the man's so rich.. he earns more money on interest than he could spend.. at that point in life I'd just give it all away o_O

I'll take some off his hands.

[StubleU]

Originally Posted by landdownunder

I'll take some off his hands.

well...ya know a good way to ensure you just might get some of his cash? get polio...or tuberculosis...of ****...go all out and get AIDS...that'll do it....you've got my vote for the next candidate to receive any of those...in exchange for money....

[landdownunder]

Originally Posted by StubleU

well...ya know a good way to ensure you just might get some of his cash? get polio...or tuberculosis...of ****...go all out and get AIDS...that'll do it....you've got my vote for the next candidate to receive any of those...in exchange for money....

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