Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies (microsoft.com)

SmartAboutThings writes: Bill Gates is known as a big philanthropist, and now his own company will commit to even more charity work by launching a new organization, Microsoft Philanthropies. Microsoft's president and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith outlined the goals for the new organization, saying it will partner with nonprofit organizations to help expand technology projects to people who need it. He said, "Just as there is an extremely effective commercial ecosystem which brings the promise of technology to life in the marketplace, there must be a strong societal ecosystem that brings the promise of technology to life in the community space, especially where there is the greatest need." Mary Snapp, who joined Microsoft as its first female attorney in 1988, will lead Microsoft Philanthropies report directly to Smith.

Comments

Ugh? Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is such a thinly-veiled attempt to get lock-in on even the poorest members of society that I want to throw up.

Just die, Microsoft. Just roll over and die already.

Re:We should not get excited about private charity

[Kethinov]

Wow, what a bunch of leftist claptrap

Last I checked, democracy was not a leftist idea. Concentrating disproportionate power in the hands of a few billionaires is undemocratic.

Government is the absolute worst way to do charity

And yet the governments with the strongest safety nets are the best at reducing poverty. Seems to me government is pretty good at it, when properly funded.