Just over a year ago, I posted the below (though the source was from 2003)
On Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:59 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_gates.html
>
> 5.09.03
> Science and Health
> Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bill Gates
I finally got around to scanning the commencement address Gates gave
at Harvard and I found his approach very interesting - very
consciously and overtly trying to influence the thinking of possibly
the most privileged set of students in the world.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/99-gates.html
Thanks for both articles, I hadn't seen either :-) The first I'd ever
read Gates first-hand was his letter to the Economist in 1998:
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Compete, Don't Delete
In the end, it all comes back to consumers. It is they who have
benefited most from the open standards that have marked the
personal-computer age. And it is they who would be harmed most if the
computer industry were forced to return to the high-cost, fragmented
standards that marked the age of the mainframe. Consumers tell us they
want more innovation and real choice - not less innovation and choice
restricted by regulators. It is free and fierce competition in the
computer industry that has created innovation and choice - and
consumers will continue to benefit only as long as this vibrant
industry remains unfettered. It is consumers who have convinced us we
are doing the right thing.
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/bill-economist.mspx
--
Raul
