posted on July 17, 2001 06:56:24 PM new
Bill Gates has given away, and will continue to give away, more money to charites that we could ever dream off.
[ edited by celebrityskin on Jul 17, 2001 07:46 PM ]
posted on July 17, 2001 07:42:23 PM new
As far as Bill Gates' "charity"- I don't consider it generous giving away what you'll never miss. What Gates has given away would be like one of us pledging $100 to the United Way. If he gave away $1 million a day for the rest of his life, his family still would never run out of the stuff.
MS didn't have to donate the particular site software that came with the PCs to the charity, but that multi-billion dollar corp could have and should have set something up for the charity to resolve the problem.
It is the height of piggery that a corp with those resources offers no solutions to a charity that by comparision has almost nothing, and yet is willing to give that away to help others..
posted on July 17, 2001 07:48:42 PM new
"As far as Bill Gates' "charity"- I don't consider it generous giving away what you'll never miss."
I am sure that the thousands of people that Gates $$ have helped would disagree with you.
"It is the height of piggery that a corp with those resources offers no solutions to a charity that by comparision has almost nothing, and yet is willing to give that away to help others.. "
So you give to VERY single charity and person that asks you for $$ or help.
Let some one steal from you... and then see how quickly you are willing to "give" to them...
[ edited by celebrityskin on Jul 17, 2001 07:50 PM ]
posted on July 17, 2001 07:52:19 PM new
You don't get it.
There is a right way and a wrong way to solicit for charity. They chose the wrong way: Steal first and ask questions later if we get caught.
Yet, with anti-American "greed" calling, you set out to make the victim here the bad guy. MS has done NOTHING wrong in this matter, yet you still attack them.
posted on July 17, 2001 08:12:42 PM new
MS has done everything wrong in this situation. Furthermore, the article is unclear as whether the charity knew BEFORE MS contacted them that what they were doing wasn't permitted as per the license agreement.
I'll bet the charity didn't know about the license until MS contacted them. Probably MS was informed by their MS site as one of the machines was trying to download something, or trying to use tech support to get the machines set up and ready for the children.
Generosity is not measured by how much you give, but by how much you have left over. Do not confuse being grateful to a donor to mean that the donor is also generous, as it does not necessarily follow.
I suppose if Gates gave his used undershirt to a naked starving 3rd world child and that child was grateful, this would mean Gates is now generous ? How about if he took the shirt back when the shirt license expired ?
[ edited by reamond on Jul 17, 2001 08:13 PM ]
