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Paul Allen's Microsoft Experience
theodp writes "Just in case Microsoft bashers don't have enough ammo, Robert X. Cringely has a couple of interesting tales in this week's column. The first explains how Bill Gates used Paul Allen's moonlighting at MITS to justify awarding himself 64% of Microsoft's stock vs. Allen's 36% (and Gates' failure to adjust the shares after he accepted a $10/hour part-time MITS job). The second heart-warming tale concerns a conversation Allen reportedly overheard late one night (as he was finishing up DOS 2.0) between Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing how to get Allen's Microsoft stock back if the Hodgkins disease Allen was battling killed him. Yikes."
I would trust the opinion of an Anonymous Coward posting on slashdot over anything Cringely writes. Except for your comment, of course... heheh
No matter how much you have, you can always use a little more.
Melinda Gates is the driving force behind all that philanthropy. Before he married Melinda you would be hard pressed to get him to donate five bucks let alone millions to charity.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does more harm than good. By preventing diseases and feeding people in the third world without doing something about the unstable birthrates, they are only guaranteeing that when the population exceeds the new (higher) carrying capacity, a larger population will suffer disease and starvation.