Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Dec 2005 16:15 UTC, submitted by BCM
"For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are Time's Persons of the Year." Here is an article dedicated to Bill and Melinda Gates, while an interview with all three can be found here.
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2005-11-13
Some people believe that Gates' contributions do more harm than good, since the money donated is used to buy drugs from the big pharmaceutical companies, while international IP law, to the benefit of said pharmaceuticals, forbids the development and distribution of cheaper generics (same drug but without the brand name).
Well, look at it this way:
If you were a big pharmaceutical company investing a lot of money (probably millions) in a drug, would you be so inclined to do so if you knew everybody and their grandma could sell a cheap, generic version of your drug once it hits the market? Goodwill aside, this ain't open source here ... even if you've got people willing to volunteer their time to the effort, it's going to cost a lot more to create a cure for AIDS than it will building a free alternative to Internet Explorer. That money has to come from somewhere.