Weekend fun for the OS junkies. A collection of some interesting quotes from the three influential figures in the history of Operating Systems. Some of the quotes are controversial and some of them are just shockingly funny. Personal favorite: Steve Jobs' quote about Bill Gates "He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
Bill Gates is directly responsible for over 1.5 billion dollars a year going towards things like HIV research, Financial services for the poor, and Global libraries. Yeah, the world will defiantly remember him as Hitler 2 because he didn't do anything spectacular, like write emacs and give away the source.
You and I have a different view of ethical bankruptcy. I don't care how capitalistic a guy is or what he did in the IT sector, if he devotes his life to being a source for good in the world, that is laudable. And to think that silly things like IT politics outweigh that is kind of sick.
Edited 2008-07-27 01:28 UTC
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If you learn some history you will find that very many corporate crooks give extremely generously to charity AFTER they make vast fortunes ripping of the public. They do it to create a legacy of generosity and charity. This is so future generations forget what scum they really were. The fact that Gates does it so blatantly and with so much publicity shows his real nature.
Bill Gates donations are the moral equivalent of an ordinary person donating $5 to charity. In fact $5 is a greater real sacrifice for most people than donating $1.5 billion is to Gates.
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Want to know why Gates is totally morally bankrupt?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,...
That article clearly shows how the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is far from a philanthropy or non-profit and is actually a money-making operation that invests in the same companies that pollute the environment and create the breeding ground for the diseases that they are actually claiming to be fighting such as malaria and polio.
Don't just dismiss my post. Read the eight-page article at the L.A. Times and then come back and comment.
When you have as much money as B. Gates does, you can make sure that articles such as the one I am pointing out do not get much airplay in radio or television which is how most people get their news.
Get informed. In every thread about Microsoft, you jump to its defense and makes you look like an uniformed Microsoft apologist.
Has Microsoft or B. Gates ever done wrong, according to you?
With the mountains of evidence available, it is hard to see how anyone could actually come to B. Gates' defense.
Edited 2008-07-27 10:55 UTC
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Very good, the only problem is, before the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation was started with encouragement from his wife, Bill Gates in a typical year gave 50,000 dollars in charity to the Seattle Public Library in the form of computers (running, of course, DOS and Windows) out of a billion-dollar income. When asked in an interview (paraphrasing the question) "why so little?" Bill Gates replied, "I don't have the time it takes to give charity."
So, when I hear about how charitable a person Bill Gates is, I remember the reason why the other robber barons, such as Rockafeller and Carnegie started similar foundations - to give themselves a "legacy" and a convenient tax shelter. Not because they did it out of the kindness of their hearts.
Edited 2008-07-27 14:32 UTC
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If I had infinite money, it'd be pretty easy to give a couple billion away too. I'm more impressed by the person who makes $40K a year and considers himself rich, because he recognizes impoverished state that 80% of the world finds itself in, and so gives a sizable percentage of that away. If your gifts to charity put no financial strain on you, and require no sacrifice on your part, what is their purpose other than to feel good about yourself, and to look good to the rest of the world?
Let me know when Gates is giving away 99% of his income, then I'll recognize some sacrifice on his part and take his charity seriously.
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2006-01-23
When I see comments like this, the first thing I think is just how ethically bankrupt the world is. You need to face the fact that Bill Gates, like Getty, and the other Robber Barons, is nobody to look up to. History will not treat them kindly because Ethical Bankruptcy isn't an admirable trait.