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I hate the Gates foundation. You know what would help those kids a lot more than your medicine? Copies of all existing textbooks in an electronic format and ac

I hate the Gates foundation. You know what would help those kids a lot more than your medicine? Copies of all existing textbooks in an electronic format and access to all of our patents. When the polio vaccine was created the inventor refused to get a patent for it, saying no one has the right to own it just like no one has the right to own the sun. I just find it very hard to support the Gates foundation when I believe that it is playing by the rules to make the founders look and feel good instead of actually challenging laws and cultural assumptions, which it truly should.

andreasvc 14y ago
Why would you hate the Gates foundation for the state of affairs concerning intellectual property? There's a democratic process to change those laws, that change doesn't have to come from their foundation. I don't believe that dumping a load of textbooks and lifting some patents would do much in itself, that's just one of the barriers that's keeping the poor poor.
tzs 14y ago
> You know what would help those kids a lot more than your medicine? Copies of all existing textbooks in an electronic format and access to all of our patents. Dead kids can't read.