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The Company Everyone Loves To Hate
In honor of Microsoft's 30th year, Epeeist writes "The BBC is running a Have Your Say article on Microsoft at 30." From that article: "Microsoft will always adapt and buy into other areas to keep themselves at the top. They're the company everyone loves to hate." While they're reflecting, most people are focusing on the now. teslatug writes "Brian Jones, a Microsoft PM on the Office team, has just confirmed that the new default XML format of Office 12 is not compatible with the GPL. Brian believes that LGPL may be compatible, but others have raised issues about the ability to redistribute." Relatedly, shades66 writes "Microsoft's Alan Yates tripped over his own words in responding to the Massachusetts Information Technology Division's late-August declaration for OpenDocument and other open software standards." For some more colourful commentary, smooth wombat writes "John Dvorak has written an article for MarketWatch in which he postulates that the reorganization by Microsoft is actually a prelude to its breakup into three separate entities."
No. They are left-leaning because they are more intelligent.
After all, I am strangely colored.
This comment is just fucking retarded.
You know, he didn't HAVE to give a dime. He DID, because he wanted to. And now you are questioning whether it was enough (as measured by your criteria - percentage of wealth). If I were Bill Gates, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself.
Giving is just that. It's a gift. With no strings attached (usually). No doubt, there are wealthy non-givers out there -- and that is their choice. But dinging someone for giving $10mil is just crazy. You should be thankful for anything he gives to charity. He certainly doesn't HAVE to.
I think it's time YOU gained some perspective. It's his money and he can do whatever he damn well pleases with it (within the law). That, my friend, is capitalism. Argue all you want but it is what it is. The idea that he "must give X because he has Y" is ludicrous. It smacks of communism -- and I don't use that term lightly.
You can do it, put your ass into it.