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Given the incentives, isn't this a Robin Hood story ? Bill Gates, Robbing the rich to give to the poor ? But the problem is that we are those rich people. We a
by petra 6y ago
Given the incentives, isn't this a Robin Hood story ? Bill Gates, Robbing the rich to give to the poor ?
But the problem is that we are those rich people. We as tech people have suffered under the microsoft monopoly. Heck, we still suffer, from the horrors of windows 10, to browser incompatibilities, etc.
So we hate Microsoft. So it's hard to love Bill.
- vlunkr 6y agoNever has the phrase "first-world problems" been so applicable.
- belval 6y agoHow could these Africans ever comprehend the pure dread of being forced to develop for IE6? /s So what if he did "terrible" stuff 25+ years ago? I am sure no-one in this thread would give 90%+ of their personal wealth to humanitarian work such as these. People just like to complain.
- thinkloop 6y agoPlease, 90% of a 100 billion (that is currently growing faster than he can spend it) is not a fair comparison. Money is worthless once you've bought everything you want.
- james_s_tayler 6y ago>Money is worthless once you've bought everything you want. Not true, for what some people want is power and they continuously dish out money to get it. It's often used as a vector to create a lot of the world's problems. I'm pretty happy to see it used the other way. A win is a win.
- belval 6y agoI understand where you are coming from, but he could have some stupid mega-doomsday-underwater-mansion project for the ultra-rich, instead he's doing this, why not appreciate it?
- thinkloop 6y ago100%, just criticizing parent about how you and I not donating 90% of our wealth is different
- alexilliamson 6y agoI would