as much as a like to whine and moan about microsoft, sometimes i really gotta show respect for good ol' bill. gates is donating (requires registration) his entire $3.3 billion stock payout to the bill and melinda gates foundation, which is the largest charitable organization in the US with $30 billion in assets. of course all this charitable contribution gives gates some real nice tax incentives, and being the richest man on earth who's making millions of dollars for just sitting on the toilet, it doesn't hurt too much to donate a lot of money. however, the gates foundation has contributed huge amounts of money to some excellent causes, including AIDS research and education programs. so huzzah bill. huzzah.
another thing i actually respect about gates is that even though he's filthy rich, he still gets his hands dirty in the research and day to day operations of microsoft. he handed off the business aspects of the company to someone else because he wants to be involved in the actual creation of products. those products may be bug-ridden, monopolisitc crap, but props to him anyways.
Posted by bwu at July 21, 2004 11:21 AMOh gag, the New York Times. It's as bad as the Fahrenheit 9/11 as far as blatant propaganda. Yep, Microsoft... capitalism at it's finest...
Posted by: Troy Szabo on July 21, 2004 12:38 PMoh bugger off. you watch fox news so you have no right to complain about biased reporting. =P
Posted by: ben on July 21, 2004 02:43 PMYou've gotta respect Bill as a businessman. Not for great products, but as a businessman. And yeah, his foundation is uber-cool. Health and education - how can you go wrong?
Hey, try this page: http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink
It generates a linkable (bypasses registration) URL for any recent NYT newsstory. There also a cool bookmarklet that runs a script and generates the link when you're looking at the story.