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Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children
chriskzoo5 writes "The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is pledging $750M to vaccinate children worldwide over the next 10 years. Much maligned for his business practices, is this proof that sometimes the ends justify the means? Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity."
haha... against viruses... har-dee-har-har
Ehta nyeh IBM, ehta Macintosh!
$750 Million = about 375 million vaccinations = about 300 million living adults in 14 - 18 years = at least an additional 250 million Windows XP-2020 licenses. At $400 USD each that's $10 BILLION.
This outperforms Microsoft stock even. Genius.
This is just the beginning of his campaign to create a more secure human being, which will eventually include various bug fixes, tracking chips, emotion inhibitors, and one bionic extendo-grab arm.
Will someone please think of the computers?
Oh wait, that should beWill someone please think of the children?
I can't wait to see the look on some fly-covered African's face when we give him an OS and he has to edit a config file in order to get flash animations of food working on his box... we provide.
No, you should just adjust the RTFA module on your brain...
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
Think of all those "donations" that happen implicitly every time a poor guy in a 3rd world country uses a legal Linux box instead of commiting piracy.
Yes, I see homeless people in the streets every day warming their hands on their Athlons, thanking the Linux community for providing them with a free OS to run their cpu's at max speed and generate maximum warmth. Starvation and disease wants to be free!
Al Capone was a wonder of the age. It should be pointed out that Capone was the 'generous' gangster. He actually helped build Cicero and Chicago projects, gave to the needy, helped the elderly, and was great with kids. While he may have consciously did this for improving his image, he did try to be an active member of the community. He liked sports, baseball, boxing, and horse racing. He gave away a lot of his ill-gotten gains, and it was part of the defence for his tax evasion trial. But Capone ultimately went to prison for tax evasion, and died in 1947 from complications arising from syphilis.
From http://www.btinternet.com/~dreklind/valentine.htm
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
The children will be vaccinated in the form of free licenses for Microsoft's antispyware and antivirus Software for an amount of 750M US$.
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Hmmm, this is the kind of stunt that politicians pull just before an election.. He does know that Dubya's back in doesn't he ? No wait .. he's probably still waiting for his Media Center to finish booting...
Mr. Gates is trying to put in a deadly virus through his vaccines and make these kids microsoft patrons and finally take over the world... Don't listen to him, run run! Ok, now you can give me a -1 score.
Linux vaccinates Gates' PCs, so it all works out in the end...
And he gave it to them because he had a hard time spending it on himself. God knows he tried.
They could probably save another $750M by switching to GEICO.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, post on Slashdot about it.
...because he probably realized that dead children don't buy software.