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Furthermore! – Bill Gates On Both Sides
Posted on February 17th, 2012 by winterbanyan in Furthermore
Bill Gates makes a lot of public speeches and when he does he sounds pretty good. He publicly favors transaction taxes, he talks a lot about green energy, and he’s firmly on the side of better education. Then you look at where his money goes. Gates is on both sides of nearly every issue.
In particular, he’s a major donor to a think tank that seeks to discredit the whole idea of climate change.
A lot of what Gates does with his money flies under the radar because the media report mostly on his speeches. However, when you look at where the money flows, you often find Microsoft as a major donor to conservative conferences and think tanks. When you look at where his education money goes, most of it goes to charter schools which are now being shown to be no better, and sometimes worse, than public schools – and a majority of which are for-profit schools.
And now he’s supporting a group that wants to discredit climate change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/heartland-institute-microsoft-gm-money
In fairness to Gates, Microsoft states:
Microsoft said the donation to Heartland was confined to its global programme to provide free software licences to non-profits. “As part of that programme the organisation requested free software licenses, and Microsoft provided them, just like we do for thousands of other eligible non-profits every year,” Katie Stainer, a spokeswoman for Microsoft, said in a statement.
“Microsoft’s position on climate change remains unchanged. Microsoft believes climate change is a serious issue that demands immediate, worldwide attention and we are acting accordingly. We are pursuing strategies and taking actions that are consistent with a strong commitment to reducing our own impact as well as the impact of our products.
Maybe that’s all that nearly $60,000 .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/heartland-institute-microsoft-gm-money .. was. Certainly other organizations have given more.
But which side are you on, Bill? Or do you even have one?
http://bpicampus.com/2012/02/16/furthermore-bill-gates-on-both-sides/
there are comments with that one
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Hi, Bull .. i don't know much about Gates, except that he is obviously a very tough businessman,
and that he gives a lot of his money away. Wasn't there a question about how he got started?
Anyway .. there is much in here about Microsoft policy .. one bit ..
Back-room deals
As a single example, consider this Reuters story which appeared in The Financial Post on January 12, 1998:
Microsoft Wins TCI Contract Seattle -- Microsoft Corp scored a major victory Saturday in its aggressive push to lead the convergence of television and the Internet, winning a contract to supply the core sofware for at least fie million advanced set-top boxes for cable giante Tele-Communications Inc.
The deal, hammerered out in negotiations that lasted until 2:30 a.m., came just a day after Microsfoft's bitter rival, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced [that] TCI would use its [J]ava programming language in the boxes,
In other words, once Bill Gates was stung by Sun, he went into the back room with TCI and a mandate to get even.
Threatening your own
Microsoft is not above threatening to destroy entire companies (even its own large customers) to get its own way. Here's another quote from another Reuters article, also in The Financial Post on January 12, 1998:
Software giant faces federal contempt charge
Washington -- Microsoft Corp faces federal charges of contempt tomorrow for allegedly violating a judge's order requiring the software giant to sell computer makers its Windows 95 software without building in a Web browser.
The Justice Department has aasked U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to fine [the company] US$1 million a day for violating his Dec. 11 preliminatry injunction...
The government stepped in last fall, after Microsoft threatened to cut off Compaq Computer's access to Windows 95. Compaq needs Windows to stay in business.
In other words, Bill was then so determined to destroy Netscape over its dominance in the Browser field that he was willing to destroy Compaq if they wouldn't help him do it.
Windows 95: Steal from the best ..
more with links .. http://www.darwinsys.com/history/mslies.html
How is the baseball going? :)
Posted on February 17th, 2012 by winterbanyan in Furthermore
Bill Gates makes a lot of public speeches and when he does he sounds pretty good. He publicly favors transaction taxes, he talks a lot about green energy, and he’s firmly on the side of better education. Then you look at where his money goes. Gates is on both sides of nearly every issue.
In particular, he’s a major donor to a think tank that seeks to discredit the whole idea of climate change.
A lot of what Gates does with his money flies under the radar because the media report mostly on his speeches. However, when you look at where the money flows, you often find Microsoft as a major donor to conservative conferences and think tanks. When you look at where his education money goes, most of it goes to charter schools which are now being shown to be no better, and sometimes worse, than public schools – and a majority of which are for-profit schools.
And now he’s supporting a group that wants to discredit climate change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/heartland-institute-microsoft-gm-money
In fairness to Gates, Microsoft states:
Microsoft said the donation to Heartland was confined to its global programme to provide free software licences to non-profits. “As part of that programme the organisation requested free software licenses, and Microsoft provided them, just like we do for thousands of other eligible non-profits every year,” Katie Stainer, a spokeswoman for Microsoft, said in a statement.
“Microsoft’s position on climate change remains unchanged. Microsoft believes climate change is a serious issue that demands immediate, worldwide attention and we are acting accordingly. We are pursuing strategies and taking actions that are consistent with a strong commitment to reducing our own impact as well as the impact of our products.
Maybe that’s all that nearly $60,000 .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/heartland-institute-microsoft-gm-money .. was. Certainly other organizations have given more.
But which side are you on, Bill? Or do you even have one?
http://bpicampus.com/2012/02/16/furthermore-bill-gates-on-both-sides/
there are comments with that one
=============
Hi, Bull .. i don't know much about Gates, except that he is obviously a very tough businessman,
and that he gives a lot of his money away. Wasn't there a question about how he got started?
Anyway .. there is much in here about Microsoft policy .. one bit ..
Back-room deals
As a single example, consider this Reuters story which appeared in The Financial Post on January 12, 1998:
Microsoft Wins TCI Contract Seattle -- Microsoft Corp scored a major victory Saturday in its aggressive push to lead the convergence of television and the Internet, winning a contract to supply the core sofware for at least fie million advanced set-top boxes for cable giante Tele-Communications Inc.
The deal, hammerered out in negotiations that lasted until 2:30 a.m., came just a day after Microsfoft's bitter rival, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced [that] TCI would use its [J]ava programming language in the boxes,
In other words, once Bill Gates was stung by Sun, he went into the back room with TCI and a mandate to get even.
Threatening your own
Microsoft is not above threatening to destroy entire companies (even its own large customers) to get its own way. Here's another quote from another Reuters article, also in The Financial Post on January 12, 1998:
Software giant faces federal contempt charge
Washington -- Microsoft Corp faces federal charges of contempt tomorrow for allegedly violating a judge's order requiring the software giant to sell computer makers its Windows 95 software without building in a Web browser.
The Justice Department has aasked U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to fine [the company] US$1 million a day for violating his Dec. 11 preliminatry injunction...
The government stepped in last fall, after Microsoft threatened to cut off Compaq Computer's access to Windows 95. Compaq needs Windows to stay in business.
In other words, Bill was then so determined to destroy Netscape over its dominance in the Browser field that he was willing to destroy Compaq if they wouldn't help him do it.
Windows 95: Steal from the best ..
more with links .. http://www.darwinsys.com/history/mslies.html
How is the baseball going? :)
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