From: Jim Gettys jg@laptop.org Reply-To: jg@laptop.org, The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org To: The general-purpose Squeak developers listsqueak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:51:00 -0500
Bill Gates has put enough money, and more importantly, time and energy into philanthropy in the developing world over the last number of years that I do not doubt the sincerity of his motives. Go take a quick look at the Gates Foundation web site.
Ok, my bad. I was in error when I said he cares only about money. He obviously cares about something else (depending on how pessimistic one is).
Remember, it is a bitter pill for Bill Gates to swallow that his company's software is not the software we are concentrating on; if you were chairman and founder of Microsoft, you'd probably believe fervently in your product too. To he and his company's credit, they have been much better about OLPC than Intel has been.
Has he offered his software for free for this project? Or for the same price of what ever OS you are using? If not then I can't see this of a case of someone being soar that they didn't get picked first for the baseball team.
I don't hate Bill Gates. He hasn't done anything that was more wrong then what others would have done if they had ended up in his position. But I am not as optimistic about the sincerity of his motives either.
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