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Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children
chriskzoo5 writes "The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is pledging $750M to vaccinate children worldwide over the next 10 years. Much maligned for his business practices, is this proof that sometimes the ends justify the means? Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity."
-1 Flamebait.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
The amount of money spent on (overpriced?) Windows and it's associated guff (Office, Visio, M$ Project, Exchange Server, etc, etc, etc) combined with the loss of productivity that everyone experiences daily when either their desktop or the Windows server crashes could add up to a lot more than $750M.
Of course it's not like companies that are saving money by going for cheaper (not necessarily Linux, or even free) options are going to donate all their savings to help those less fortunate, so let's be thankful that BillyG is making such large donations (of which there have been a few that I remember reading about), for whatever reason he is making them.
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This is the kind of post where people should either shut up or say "wow, now that's something." This is not the time for *stupid* comments like the poster wrote, "see if the linux folks can match that" or for the kinds of responses where some slashdotters do all sorts of analysis on how an open-source OS helps sick kids. I can't even believe what I'm reading here.
Hopefully his foundation will have more luck protecting kids against viruses than his Outlook and OS teams have protecting their products.
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C'mon now. A good cause, of course, but how about all the children who get "infected" with spyware, porn and gambling websites using your Windows boxes? tsk tsk.