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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."
The difference? One of them is someone who can afford to make such a generous donation, while the other is still making his software available for free over the Internet.
The other difference is that a very loud (and slashdot-powered) portion of "the Linux Community" takes every opportunity to malign Gates personally, decry his success, and claim that MS shouldn't exist. Discussing whether or Gates is generous isn't the issue - his foundation shells out much, much more than the amount in this particular gift, and has been doing so for years and years - rather, it's whether or not his rabid (philosphical) opponents are generous enough (intellectually) to conceed that he's not actually The Devil, or Hitler, or any of the other evil icons to which they compare him.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
tell that the the kids dying of malaria in sub-saharan africa. im sure a free operating system would get them all giddy with excitement.
Not.