Gates Donates $15M to Preserve Computing History

Dan-DAFC writes "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is donating the sum of $15 million to the Computer History Museum in California, according to the BBC. The money is the biggest single gift in the museum's $125 million fund-raising campaign, which is still $50 million short of its target. The funds raised will be used to add more exhibits and educational programs."

Comments

Computing Museum

[VincenzoRomano]

Gates is also donating a copy of all his software products.
Infact their bugs has made the history as well as their poorly engineered solutions!

control

[Jacek Poplawski]

"Who controls the past controls the future"
Computing History may contain lots of Microsoft ideas...

Re:In other words...

[humina]

Bill Gates: Steal from the poor. Give a small slice back to the poor in order to allow the theft. Live richly.

I refuse to get on the "but he does some good" bandwagon here.

Re:Too late for PR stunts BG

[humina]

I think gates used/uses his money to improve his tainted image. The best way to get money out of Jobs and others might be to start a personal campaign against them. The only way out of it would therefore be public donations.

I'd like to see a tech company use some of their donation money to improve the workplace and pay of those people that do the soldering and assembly of the actual computers. Personally I'd like to see the money go towards improving the future instead of preserving the past. I guess I'll just have to flame bill a bit more in order to get the money out of him.