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posted by janrinok on Monday February 02 2015, @06:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the promoting-the-competition dept.

Silviu Stahie at Softpedia reports

The Internet is abuzz today after Bill Gates published an image on his Facebook page and a link towards his website with the text "15 years from now, most people in poor countries will be able to take classes online." It's a sound goal and it's perfectly doable, but in the image posted on Facebook the operating system is Ubuntu.

As a former Microsoft CEO and the founder of what we call today Windows, you might think that he would pay a little more attention towards his message, but this particular detail has slipped past the radar of the ones posting on Facebook, unless he did that himself, which would be even funnier.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Nuke on Tuesday February 03 2015, @11:31AM

    by Nuke (3162) on Tuesday February 03 2015, @11:31AM (#140637)

    Is it really a shock that 3rd world countries and poor people in general would be using Ubuntu? They can't afford Windows ...... 4th-grader-type, remarks being posted.

    You are the one who sounds like the 4th grader - for missing the joke, the fact that Gates shows a screenshot of Linux on his page and applauds the scenario.

    The guy has done a good thing and everyone gives him grief. The mark of a true leader.

    What bullshit. He is handing out money that he should not have in the first place. The first "good thing" he should do, and has not, is to give back a large portion of his money to the millions of people he and his company have ripped off, by illegal monopoly practices and forced purchases of Windows with every PC bought in the high street for the last 20 years. Then we can judge him on what he does with the remainder.

    If I (or almost anyone else in the World) give a one penny to charity it leaves me far worse off than Gates has left himself. Does that make me better than Gates?