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Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.
He says he wants to focus on global health and development, education and tackling climate change.
One of the world's richest men, Mr Gates, 65, has also left the board of Warren Buffett's massive holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.
Mr Gates stepped down from his day-to-day role running Microsoft in 2008.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday March 15 2020, @04:22PM
Don't kid yourself that the opponents MS EEE'd were any better than MS. They too practiced extreme copyright, copy protection, DRM, and lawsuits. There was a time when MS was actually sort of a little cool for dethroning IBM and Word Perfect. But as I say, only a little, because they were still themselves fundamentally no different from that competition.
The stuff they haven't been able to exterminate is GNU/Linux.
As for Bill Gates, I think he's lost his way. Maybe it would have been better had he not extorted billions from the world economy, so that those resources could go into medical research, for one thing. Medical tech is insanely expensive, yet still far from well integrated and utilized. If he wants to help with medicine, he ought to help with that. Take on the corrupt system that gouges the American patient at every turn. But I suppose he can't, unless he turns, because what should be done is install libre software everywhere in doctors' offices. Set a thief/price gouger to catch a thief/price gouger.
I imagine Gates would instantly reject the above advice, as it is against his religion. He could do a lot for society if he'd devote himself to restraining and changing the ownership society. Promote ways to profit from software engineering, without having to resort to DRM or lawsuits.