[vox] [OT] On Bill Gates, philanthropist

[Richard Crawford]

Bill Kendrick said:

> Sorry for being so off-topic, but for being annoyed at Microsoft
> (both due to software -- laptop just blue-screened! -- and due to they
> way the act in general), I always felt it hard to _totally_ dislike
> Gates himself, due to his contributions.  Now they seem a little less
> 'good.'

Library geeks like myself who are also open source advocates have an
especially hard time, since Gates has given so much money to public
libraries (and not just for computers); without his money, it's likely
that at least one branch of the Seattle Public Library would have shut its
doors for good.


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Richard S. Crawford (AIM: Buffalo2K)

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