Legend11 on 06 February 2010
| ChichiriMuyo said: I hate when people talk about Bill Gates being a philanthropist when what he's using a lot of that money for is to teach people how to use MS products. Breeding loyal customers isn't charitable even if you can convince the government not to tax you for it. I almost couldn't finish after that. |
I read just a week ago that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is donating $10 billion over the next decade to vaccine research (after already donating $4.5 billion) and now I'm reading a post that is basically belittling the guy's philanthropy? How about the $1.5 billion they gave to the United Negro College Fund for scholorships for minority students? Also do you really think that Warren Buffet would be giving billions of dollars and eventually the bulk of his money to that foundation if it was basically just teaching people how to you Microsoft products? Feel free to hate Microsoft and Bill Gates all you want but at least have the decency to give the man some credit for his philanthropy.
