It's very easy to be philanthropic when you have tens of billions of dollars. To his credit he is giving it away - many people don't. What do you do with a billion dollars anyway? Never mind tens of billions...
I'd rather consider how he made those tens of billions of dollars - abuse of monopoly, some seriously underhand manoeuvres, etc. These cost people a lot, and in my opinion held the PC industry back a long time. In addition money stacked away in savings is money not circulating in the economy.
But if we consider the money paid to Microsoft for their sub-standard software and buggy Office suites as being an investment in future philanthropy, then maybe it's all okay. But in that case the people donating the money are the people who've had to use Microsoft products one way or another, and not Bill Gates.
He should fund things like Natami/Firebee etc 100% free and give xbox 360 motherboard development time and OS development resource FREE to anyone who wants to build a next gen Amiga or similar.
That Windows sh1t is why the excitement of diverse incompatible revolutionary change per generation/model of 80s computing is gone forever.
And don't bother sticking up for him as he tried to **** Sony (and hence us) with funding/support for HD DVD lame donkey tech vs bluray AND if compatibility was important why didn't he adopt Playstation compatibility license? All B0LL0X because even today 360 STILL uses noisy dirt cheap 50 Pence DVD ROM out of spite!
Ditto for S.Bulmer and P.Alan (3 founders of Microcock)
They are (all 3 of them) kunts and I hope they all die soon and horribly like final destination style for all the damage they did through their illegal monopolistic sh1t :madashell:
