Tim Churches wrote:
It is worth remembering that it is Bill and Melinda Gates who provide
the funds to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, not Microsoft, and
thus only a small proportion of Microsoft revenues ever find their way
into that particular philanthropic organisation. And then the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation only spends 5% of its funds on philanthropy
each year (including malaria vaccine research) - the other 95% is
invested in stocks, bond, shares and other money-making things, some of
dubious benefit to the very people the other 5% is trying to help - see
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story
and http://slashdot.org/articles/07/01/12/1756212.shtml
OK. I think I've got it Tim. So if I spend A$20,000 for a standalone MS
SQL server, only sixty cents or so might end up in malaria research.
David
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