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Bill Gates has said that he thinks everyone would be using Windows Mobile right now and not Android if it weren't for his distractions and the antitrust investigation that his company got caught into.
"There's no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft, and we would have been more focused on creating the phone operating system and so instead of using Android today you would be using Windows Mobile," Gates claimed during his speech at The New York Times' DealBook Conference.
[...] Microsoft cofounder also revealed that the company was almost launching Windows Mobile on a Motorola handset but missed out on it by a few months, giving Android an unbeatable advantage. While there were a lot of factors, Gates says it's this 3-months delay that led to Android's supremacy and the downfall of any mobile efforts by Microsoft.
"We were just three months too late on a release Motorola would have used on a phone, so yes it's a winner takes all game."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday November 09 2019, @02:56PM (6 children)
Keep that in mind when you visit most any museum. Carnegie-Melon? They felt guilty for exploiting people in their day, so they got into philanthropy to get right with God or something like that. Not much different from the Pharaoh, who were all real SOB's but wanted to be remembered as some kind of nice guy.
The poor man (or woman) who gives a sandwich to a hungry guy is far more praiseworthy than some asshole giving away money that he can't possibly spend in his lifetime.
Fuck Bill - he'll answer to God just as surely as any of us. You won't find me giving him any sympathy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @06:47PM
You only have to be in with the right sky-daddy. My god doesn't care about small details such as how much money I give away or what day of the week I rest or even how I have sex.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday November 09 2019, @11:21PM
This is so true and so wise, I wish I could mod you +20 Insightful.
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(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday November 10 2019, @07:34AM (3 children)
The Gate's foundation is pouring US$ 5 Billion into Africa.
And yet in the USA, where Billl made his fortune, met his wife, and where they and their children live, there are families and individuals who have no homes, or even basic shelter and have no guarantee that they will even get any food from day to day.
Isn't there some line in the Bible or one of those other "Holy" books everyone claims to follow about how "Charity starts at home"? If Billy boy doesn't believe in God then why the Hells is he trying to clean up his rep in the first place?
If B&M spent that money taking care of those people who are going hungry in their own country they actually get some respect from me, until then both of them can rot in the deepest pit of Hells for all I care.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @08:35AM (1 child)
He got that money uh... fair and square.
OK maybe not, but there are still better ways to attack the B&MG Foundation.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 10 2019, @08:50AM
Are there, really? I suppose that Bill and Melinda have lived so far inside of a gated community that they have never witnessed a hungry American? Or, an American with holes in his shoes? Or, an American with shabby clothes, headed for a job interview for yet another dead-end job that won't pay for a new wardrobe?
Despite the fact that America is one of, if not THE richest nations on earth, there is plenty of opportunity to be charitable at home. GP makes a valid point, IMO. If I were to load up my truck with all of the cash, in US twenty dollar bills, and drive around looking for worthy causes, I could empty the truck in pretty short order. Take your choice of cities, or small towns. You may (or may not) have to look a little harder out in rural America - that's debatable.
For clarity, "worthy causes" for me would be individuals with hard luck stories, not "not-for-profit" charities. Those "charities" that actually pass on 50% or more of the money they rake in are exceptions, rather than the rule.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @02:54PM
I would attack billionaires at a more fundamental level. I would argue the most noble, virtuous, valuable job any human can have is working as a doctor. The average American doctor - the best paid doctors in the world - would have to work 50,000 years and save every penny to become a billionaire. So no billionaire, anywhere, ever, truly earned their fortune. Nobody works 50,000 times as hard as a doctor, or is 50,000 times as smart as a doctor, or even is 224 times as smart and works 224 times as hard (224 * 224 = 50,176).
So the existence of billionaires represent a policy failure in society. They're the most successful thieves in history.