One of the BBC comments mentioned what wonderful things Bill Gates is doing for charity in Africa.
The most terrible part about the charity of Bill Gates is what the intellectual property laws that Microsoft and others push for have done to the people suffering from AIDS there.
The same IP laws that supposedly protect Microsoft's innovations also prevent the manufacture of generic AIDS drugs. So what is $10 Million versus how much more could be done with more affordable AIDS drugs?
There is nothing charitable about those contributions when Microsoft profits much more than that through ridiculous IP laws.
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One of the BBC comments mentioned what wonderful things Bill Gates is doing for charity in Africa. The most terrible part about the charity of Bill Gates is what the intellectual property laws that Microsoft and others push for have done to the people suffering from AIDS there. The same IP laws that supposedly protect Microsoft's innovations also prevent the manufacture of generic AIDS drugs. So what is $10 Million versus how much more could be done with more affordable AIDS drugs? There is nothing charitable about those contributions when Microsoft profits much more than that through ridiculous IP laws.