Well, he probably donates because his PR people tell him so, otherwise he would not be invited by Forbes or other magazines to talk.
If he would donate the money to the users of Windows instead (MS's customers) by giving it away for free, including source code, most of those customers might actually start to like MS (how many people do you know who really hate Red Hat or SuSE??).
Bill, collaboration is the new keyword, not competition...
On the day Microsoft decides to put their next release of Windows on SourceForge (or some other OSS server), I will start to believe some of what they say. Until then it's all FUD and lies to me.
Sorry Bill, we all know you're incredibly smart, unfortunately you're still not using your powers for the right goals. Stop greed and stop thinking about how to earn the next 100 Million Dollars (believe me, you don't need them to become happy, you already have enough of that money stuff, the next millions just make you sick or less happy). Start thinking about how to make the world a better place. We're here, waiting for you. Don't make us wait forever! Tomorrow might be too late, and I would be sad about that!
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Well, he probably donates because his PR people tell him so, otherwise he would not be invited by Forbes or other magazines to talk.
If he would donate the money to the users of Windows instead (MS's customers) by giving it away for free, including source code, most of those customers might actually start to like MS (how many people do you know who really hate Red Hat or SuSE??).
Bill, collaboration is the new keyword, not competition...
On the day Microsoft decides to put their next release of Windows on SourceForge (or some other OSS server), I will start to believe some of what they say. Until then it's all FUD and lies to me.
Sorry Bill, we all know you're incredibly smart, unfortunately you're still not using your powers for the right goals. Stop greed and stop thinking about how to earn the next 100 Million Dollars (believe me, you don't need them to become happy, you already have enough of that money stuff, the next millions just make you sick or less happy). Start thinking about how to make the world a better place. We're here, waiting for you. Don't make us wait forever! Tomorrow might be too late, and I would be sad about that!
Lu zi han.