[Wolves] Bill Gates

[Mo Awkati]

It is wrong that people should be held "hostage" by
anyone. they say he is getting his knighthood for
doing charity work and providing jobs and sponsoring
250 students at Cambridge University. Charities should
be supported and thats good, creating jobs is good
too, and supporting students is good too, but what
about all the innocent people who have to part with
very hard earned money so that they can enjoy using a
computer? Good enterprise should be supported and
nourished but not at the expense of others. To me it
is no different to Diamond Mine owners who bleed the
local population to literally death, no matter how
much they support charity etc I can't accept it. OK
its not as bad as MS, but it is still not good. 

Mo





 --- Jono Bacon <jonobacon at yahoo.com> wrote: > Heya,
> 
> Although I am no fan of Bill, one thing I do credit
> him with is the fact that we have a computer in
> everyone home and desktop. Irrespective of whether
> he
> runs a nasty monopolistic corp, the availability of
> some MS software has made computers more accessible,
> which in turn will have put Linux in the hands of
> more
> people due to the fact that computers are so
> prominant.
> 
> I am not saying he should be fecking knighted
> though.
> :/
> 
>   Jono
> 
> --- David Goodwin <david at openminds.co.uk> wrote:
> > Simon Burke wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I know its a sacreligious name to mention here,
> > but still i needed to 
> > > point something out:
> > > 
> > > http://news.deviantart.com/article/12753/
> > > 
> > > I cant believe that Bill Gates is to recieve a
> > KBE, Bill Gates Knight 
> > > Commander of the British Empire just does not
> > sound right?
> > > 
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, wasn't one of the royal
> web
> > servers on RedHat? 
> > Does this mean the Queen is after a discount and
> > migration to windows?
> > 
> > :-/
> > 
> > David.
> > 
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