Love em or Hate em, you can not deny his genius and generosity. His charity - Gates Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955)[3] is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author, the world's third richest person (as of February 8, 2008),[2] and chairman[4] of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. Gates was the richest person in the world for 15 consecutive years.[5] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.[6] He has also authored or co-authored several books. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a large number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts.[7][8] In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January, 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June, 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.
great observation. he also gives billions of his own money to those who need it to fight hunger and disease around the world.
He is billionaire and aspiration for everyone . He must not even dreamed that he will become the most richest person of world.(although it changed but he remained richest for a long time) Even with this huge amount of money he is down to earth and don't get behave like those stupid and arrogant rich hollywood celebrities .
Its not about been anti-competitive, its about making money. Every business in the world would cut off there competition if they were in a position to. Don't hate the player, hate the game comes to mind when ever people talk about Bill Gates and Microsoft 'supressing innovation'.
Yes. And, what this thread tries to avoid, is that the billions he gives to "fight disease and hunger" in third world countries is also money he uses to buy shares of the same companies his charity buys from. In addition, his same companies are the biggest polluters in Africa causing countless disease problems. See the link to the article in LA Times in the other thread.
you or the link you provided prove nothing. its amazing to me how people like you will try to downplay or demonize this man for giving hundreds of millions of dollars to great causes.
Mr Gates has a fine to pay to EU for anti-competitive attitudes. After he pays it (ie: Microsoft) i'll applaud his beloved attitudes. Fair enough?
He only has 8% (well around there) stake in the Company. What Microsoft does should not downgrade what he has personally done. Bill Gates is a great guy!
yes I did. and it doesnt prove anything. well since they said it, it must be true right? regardless, the amount of good his charity does > the things mentioned in this article.