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In article <b642e958.0106111040.2f96d971@posting.google.com>,
jhaaver@yahoo.com (Jim Haaver) wrote:

> Jim@Manson.com wrote in message
news:<did9itchpmjsul0k8uoicccvr53mnjf107@4ax.com>...
> > Considering Gates has no obligation to give anything to anyone he's
> > pretty much free to do whatever he wants with it.
> > 
> > If he wants to give it all to left handed Lithuanians with one short
> > leg he gets to do exactly that.
> > 
> > That's the wonderful thing about donating to charity- you give to the
> > groups/people that you want to give to.
> > 
> > So quit whining, set up your own foundations, go funds raise for
> > disadvantaged rural youth and quit worrying about what Gates is doing.
> 
> 
> Gates "charity" was announced during the Microsoft trial, an obvious
> attempt to curry favor in "progressive thinking communities". It was
> blatant.
> 
> Jim

It was also largely fraudulant. But it opened some social doors for him &
his wife, so he has expanded the PR program to make himself look like one
of the world's biggest charitable entitites. He's not. But it all depends
on how one adds up the actual retail value of the few computers &
"billions" in pricey software he's had Microsoft give away in his name
mostly as a business ploy to cut off Apple Corp in the one area they
dominated, school computer programs.

-paghat the ratgirl