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176629 2003-09-23 01:13:00 Dont really care if Mr gates sponsors Kings or All Blacks! :D

All i ask Mr gates is to setup a R&D or just expand its operations in NZ creating 1000 odd jobs. It would certainly help us IT graduates who have such a hard time getting a job. Even the janitors at MS in redmond get a decent income!!

Hope Mr gates gets to read this thread somehow :D :D
neptune (3819)
176630 2003-09-23 02:17:00 i take back my negative comments about bill gates..like why doesnt he give money to who and who
after hearing the news last night...$200+ million to malaria causes in africe on his trip there...
seems like a rich man does have a nice heart afterall...
csinclair83 (200)
176631 2003-09-23 02:53:00 I don't claim to know much about this subject, but as far as I'm aware, Bill gets a nice big tax deduction for his donations. I personally don't believe he is as generous as he likes us to think. segfault (655)
176632 2003-09-23 03:27:00 > " Ahh, if Bill Gates had a dollar for every time that
> 'Windows' has crashed... oh that's right...he does."

LMAO! That's good!

Ahh... You've put a smile on my dial for the day!

*Clicks* I s'pose ya can turn that around and make it about Linux too.. RedHat are only just turning over a profit ;-)
Chilling_Silently (228)
176633 2003-09-23 04:56:00 > *Clicks* I s'pose ya can turn that around and make it
> about Linux too.. RedHat are only just turning over a
> profit ;-)

I was sure I just saw that they'd made a profit of $NZ5.7m in the last quarter. That is still quite a lot of crashes IMO.
-=JM=- (16)
176634 2003-09-23 09:08:00 Okay... So what about Mandrakesoft ;-) Chilling_Silently (228)
176635 2003-09-26 09:03:00 > I don't claim to know much about this subject, but as
> far as I'm aware, Bill gets a nice big tax deduction
> for his donations. I personally don't believe he is
> as generous as he likes us to think.

If it works anything like it does in NZ, you get the tax that was paid on the donated money back - if he didn't donate the money, he wouldn't "need" any of it back - it's not making him richer by donating. $200m donation is still huge, and that's a very generous donation. How can you sit there and say that someone isn't as generous as he likes us to think when he's donating more money than most of us will ever see in our lives... possibly combined :D

Mike.
Mike (15)
176636 2003-09-26 09:36:00 Very true Mike very true. Thomas (1820)
176637 2003-09-27 11:19:00 He's got more than enough to lead a good life. He should keep enough to keep himself stable for the rest of his life and donate the rest to good causes. Anyway, what he should be pouring all that money into is making Microsoft a good company. THE WHOLE MICROSOFT FRANCHISE IS AS CORRUPT AS STALIN! smashedlittlebugger (4397)
176638 2003-09-28 22:59:00 And he still can't find a programmer to make Windows work properly.... Chris Randal (521)
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