sparaig wrote: >--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: >> >> >>>--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: >>>> >>>> >><snip> >> >> >>>>>Interesting thing to say about Gates. His stated goal in life >>>>>for several decades was to become the richest man in the >>>>> >>>>> >>world... >> >> >>>>He has said publicly that before he dies, he wants to >>>>give away 96 percent of his fortune. >>>> >>>>It's not impossible that's *why* he wanted to become the >>>>richest man in the world: so he could give most of it >>>>away. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Yeah, but his behavior in the business world was NOT that of >>> >>> >>someone who had an ounce >> >> >>>of altruism. He made very few charity-oriented remarks until afer >>> >>> >>he got married. And his >> >> >>>most famous comment about charities before he got married was that >>> >>> >>he was going to >> >> >>>wait until he was 65 and retired before he started worrying about >>> >>> >>that kind of thing. >> >>Makes sense, if you think about it. By that time, any >>money he had invested instead of giving it to charity >>would have doubled or tripled. Now he's retiring, >>apparently, and it seems that what he's going to be >>doing for the rest of his life is figuring out where >>best to give his money away. >> >> >> > >Perhaps you're correct, but I can't help recalling the time that Microsoft >sent out a press >release proudly touting the millions of dollars of computer equipment they had >donated to >public schools, all of which required the WIndows OS to operate... > They were doing what Apple had done for years prior, seeding the schools with computers. Microsoft came under criticism for not doing the same thing however up until Windows 95 PC's were mainly "business" machines and not well suited for the educational market.
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