Posted on 06/15/2006 1:33:07 PM PDT by HAL9000
CNBC announcing - After July 2008, Bill Gates shall leave his daily role at Microsoft, but will remain as company chairman.
Well, that's baloney, but it's representative of the rest of your post.
I'm amazed at the number of FReepers who trash Gates. So what if he's a good marketeer? That's what builds business.
Nothing happens until somebody sells something.
Worse....he thinks he can save the world by throwing his money at problems.
***Worse yet...Gates joined the One World Government ideologistic elites.
(Jay Severen calls Bill Gates a "racist" because Gate's scholarship program excludes all other races except blacks.)
That they do....and the self-important continue to impress only themselves.
Ah yes. Attacking the messenger is a time honored tactic when the message is unassailable.
I'm amazed at the number of FReepers who trash Gates.
Why? He's a lefty that sends tons of money to the UN for, ahem , population control. He's a thief and a liar. He deserves to be trashed.
So what if he's a good marketeer? That's what builds business.
Being a good marketeer isn't the problem. The problem is that he's built an empire on stealing other people's work.
strings dblspace.bin | grep -i Stac
Copyright 1985 Stac Electronics, Inc.
Alfonse Capone built a big business too but I don't see any one around here lionizing him.
Which scholarship program are you talking about? His Gates Cambridge Scholarship is open to anyone.
LOL!! Let me guess. You're Stac.
Obviously, greed is driving his generosity. Because if he kept the stock, he would pay no income taxes and still have the billions in net worth. If he sold the stock and kept the money, he would have xx billion - 20% taxes (or maybe a higher rate because of the AMT). If he gives away the money, he had $0 of it left. Thus, he's giving it away out of greed.
/s
Yeah, sorta. If you look into how the Gates foundation and the TRIPS treaty seem to mesh, it makes you wonder. Shrug. I know a couple mill at me would be "great" work ;).
So Vista is going to be the disaster most suspect.
OTOH, they could have invested in the NYT.
You're not impressed?
You're also not very well informed, or worth considering....
History requires you invest in knowledge
Point well taken. I also base my feeling on things I have read or heard, taken with many grains of salt of course. From my viewpoint, I see a vast differenece between Gates and other super-wealthy people, movie "stars" in particular. He just comes off as being a lot more down to earth and sincere than many super rich people.
I don't see anything in your link about physical force or even veiled threats of violence, just tough negotiation. Anti-Capitalist rhetoric is apparently not limited to the left.
Don't bother responding, I have no interest in your type. Life's too short to refute every insecure fool one comes across.
....and yet, here you are. I guess you're trying to inform me.
History requires you invest in knowledge
OK, Confucius. I can't say I am overwhelmed by your 'investment' portfolio.
Excellent post :~D
Gates got out just in time. The blame will fall on the new Chief Software Architect - Ray Ozzie.
It already is. They've been laboring 5 years to get the Vista beast out the door, while Apple is coding circles around them releasing a major OS X upgrade every year. If Steve Jobs ever comes to his senses and allows OS X to be pre-installed on major PC brands (e.g., Dell), he could give the Gates empire a run for their money.
That's what I'm thinking.
Gates getting out before Vista???
Bill has always been a strong businessman, but just wait until the fire-in-the-belly founders are all gone, and they are replaced by MBA option-jockeys....Reminds me of the sound of a cow patty hitting a cement floor....
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