>I've wondered if Bill Gates' philanthropy was honest, or if it was a
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And does it make any difference, or not ? Someone has to do philantropy
everywhere in the world, maybe it is more honest, when all philantropy
is done by state ;-)
I don't think Bill Gates is real problem - maybe for Americans, but not
so much for outside world. It seemed so for some time, but for me, he
now seems to be slightly uninteresting richest man of 20th century. He
brought as many new ideas to computing, as McDonalds brought to culture
of dining ;-) But this is nothing to be afraid of - rest of world is
"inventing" lot of dull marketing strategies every day, this is not the
problem.
Today, as long as I can run Linux and Xfree4 with native (closed source
;) drivers from Nvidia, including OpenGL support, and StarOffice to read
.DOC and .XLS files, and Mozilla with Flash plugin to view any
MSIE-optimized web site, I don't really care about strange Microsoft
licenses, etc. As long as I am allowed to do this, of course...
The problem are situations, where American executive power enforces
marketing strategies of huge corporations in other countries. Earlier,
it included let's say installation of Shah in Iran in 1950's. Now, this
may include installation of U.S. copyright laws in other countries.
I don't believe Bill Gates is really "Big Brother".... unless he will
release some kind of anti-terrorist Windows with built-in Echelon or
Carnivore driver....
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