[TriLUG] Linux worse than AIDS (according to billg spending)

[Paul Jones]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html

Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 13/11/2002 at 04:22 GMT

We do hate to rain on a high-profile corporate love-fest, but we have to 
point out that in addition to the much trumpeted $100 million Billg has 
donated to India's fight against HIV, he's funding the Microsoft jihad 
against Linux to the far more impressive tune of $421 million. That means 
that Linux is more than four times worse than AIDS to Billg and his happy 
Redmond family. God forbid any of them should learn the bitter truth the 
hard way and start talking sense.

Billg's personal $100 million goes to health initiatives over ten years, 
while $421 million of Microsoft's money goes, over a mere three years, to 
support MS-friendly development and 'educational' initiatives. And being a 
monster MS shareholder himself, a 'Big Win' in India will enrich him 
personally, perhaps well in excess of the $100 million he's donating to 
the AIDS problem. Makes you wonder who the real beneficiary of charity is 
here.

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