[Gllug] Gates, self proclaimed father of open-source
Xander D Harkness
xander at harkness.co.uk
Fri Nov 9 12:52:45 UTC 2001
On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 13:40, Simon Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:23:10PM +0100, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > I vote for Linus Torvalds to play Luke Skywalker
> > > > (in the original Star Wars part III)
> > >
> > > By extension:
> > >
> > > Obi Wan Kenobi == RMS
> > > Darth Vader == Billy Gates
> > I think here you may want to consider that in the last episode Darth
> > Vader was shown to have some good in him - I am not sure that this is
> > entirely appropriate ;-)
>
> Don't forget that BG does a lot of work for chariddy. He just doesn't
> like to talk about it....
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
I know that many of the millions of pounds that he donates are tax
write-offs.
He donated a figure in excess of 20 million to libraries in the US.
What he actually donated was Windows licences, not cash. This I do not
see as a gift - just reinforcing his monopoly. It was just the spin
that was put on it.
I would not be surprised if other sponsorships were similar.
Cheers
Xander
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