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Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria
klubar writes to tell us that Bill Gates has donated approximately $258 million to fight malaria. From the article: "Malaria research accounts for about one-third of 1 percent of the total amount of money spent on medical research and development, even though it accounts for 3 percent of all the productive years of life lost to diseases, according to a report released Sunday." Gates was quoted saying "The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D."
If Bill Gates sincerely wanted to help the world, he would fix all the problems in Windows XP.
At present, Windows XP, with all its quirkiness and vulnerabilities, wastes the time of some of the most educated and capable people in the world. The $258 million donated is completely and utterly trivial compared to the maintenance cost of Windows XP throughout the world.
Of course, there is a lot of money in not fixing the problems. Big software companies leave problems in their software so that they can fix them in later versions. In the case of Windows, Microsoft will usually be paid the entire cost of buying a new version, not just an upgrade cost.
Foundations are a rich person's distraction, or usually the distraction of a rich person's wife. The main attraction is to spend a lot of time with people who pretend to love you, because you are giving away free money. Another attraction is to spend time with a lot of other wives of rich people.
It is a good thing, of course, that money is being made available for malaria drug research. But it is a public relations smokescreen, like Nancy Reagan and the cause that was designed for her by PR people, "Just Say No". The PR says, "I'm a nice person." It means, "Please let my husband continue to plunder the way he has always done." (Reagan caused the government to borrow money so that he could give it to his friends in the weapons and oil industries.)
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