Bill Gates Is First Guest Editor In Time Magazine's 94-Year History (geekwire.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Time invited Bill Gates to be the first guest editor in the 94-year history of the magazine. Among the news Bill deemed fit to print in Time's first augmented-reality-enhanced issue were articles by wife Melinda and pal Bono, both of whom graced the cover of Time with Bill as the 2005 Persons of the Year... Another article reveals that "the four learning hacks Bill Gates swears by" include Khan Academy (a $10+ million Gates Foundation partner), tech-backed Code.org (to which Bill, the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, and Steve Ballmer have given somewhere north of $17M), the Big History Project (to which Bill had contributed a "modest $10 million" as of 2014), and The Teaching Company (which got Bill stoked about Big History).
The issue also includes Gates' "four favorite ways to give back" and "six innovations that could change the world." In fact, the theme of the whole issue is "optimism," with 62-year-old Gates writing that "On the whole, the world is getting better. This is not some naively optimistic view; it's backed by data. Look at the number of children who die before their fifth birthday. Since 1990, that figure has been cut in half. That means 122 million children have been saved in a quarter-century, and countless families have been spared the heartbreak of losing a child."

Another optimistic essay came from Daily Show host Trever Noah, who writes, "Mock millennials all you want. Here's why they give me hope."

Comments

By all means, give back

[drinkypoo]

Give back to the people who worked for the corporations you drove out of business with illegally anticompetitive business practices, Bill. Give back to the people who had to clean up after your deliberate attempts to sabotage Linux. Give life back to the people that your investments have killed. Give back the tax revenues you've avoided paying even though you're one of the biggest beneficiaries of the system. Let us have back control of education. Please, Bill. Give Back.

Newsflash!

[Nova Express]

"Man last relevant in 2001 edits magazine last relevant in 1996! Details at 10!"

Why all the hate against Bill?

[FeelGood314]

Seriously, it seems like a bunch of virtue signalling to me. Bill post Microsoft, has been probably the greatest and smartest philanthropist of our time. So I'm guessing the hate has to be directed at Microsoft and his time there. Now if Microsoft is anywhere close to the top of your list of evil organizations then you have a serious lack of world knoledge. If you look at the details of Microsoft's abuses most of them are just being very competitive and a couple I would attribute to luck more than planning (e.g. Novell printer support).

The world likes standards. If you make software for home users you ideally only want to make it for one platform and you want it to be so simple your grandmother can use it without making a support call. Microsoft gave the world that and they also made it easy for developers. Ask anyone who ever created anything for a Mac in the early 90s how easy it was just to make a window appear. Microsoft also did everything possible to make your old programs run on new versions of their OS. So that accounting software that ran on DOS 5.1 still works under Windows 10. Microsoft gained their OS dominance through being smart and working hard.
Did they abuse their dominant position in the OS to gain an advantage else where? Yeah
Did they overreact and crush netscape when they felt threatened? Yeah
Did they give us an OS that most of us still use everyday at work, does it work pretty darn well and get stuff done for us? Yes
Of the platforms - Linux, iOS, Windows and the Android on you AT&T phone, windows doesn't even seem that locked down.

So competitive and occasionally evil but in the greater scheme of things Microsoft at it's worst was a better behaved company than 90% of the worlds large companies.