I'm not at all fond of Microsoft, and I agree that many of the Gates Foundation gifts have some conditions promoting the dominion of Winders. But, a larger amount goes to causes where the computer OS and software is irrelevant. Malaria, AIDS, vaccines and improved health around the world have little to do with what computer OS the people who have no computers use.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Gates on outsourcing In a message dated 6/29/2005 9:38:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guess if the choice is Windows or shutdown, it's not a hard decision. Decision? No problem, since Windows = shutdown. Bill "mainframe bigot" Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
