06-15-2006, 10:06 PM
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MSNBC: Bill Gates to Transition Away From Microsoft
"Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company he co-founded to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will continue on as the company�s chairman after transferring his duties over a two-year period. �This was a hard decision for me,� said Gates, who founded the world�s largest software company with childhood friend Paul Allen. �I�m very lucky to have two passions that I feel are so important and so challenging. As I prepare for this change, I firmly believe the road ahead for Microsoft is as bright as ever.�"
Interesting, and not all-together surprising. Bill Gates has been focusing more and more on his charitable work, and after reading the Time magazine article about him earlier this year, I can see he has a real passion for it. I think it's great that someone with so much money wants to focus all his time on helping others - we need more people like that in this world.
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06-15-2006, 10:20 PM
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Intellectual
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A truly great man.
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06-15-2006, 11:10 PM
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I agree wholeheartedly.
At the same time, it sickens me when I see multimillion-dollar celebrities get up on stage and TV after the terrorist attacks and natural disasters we've had, and ask the public to contribute to a worthy cause. After we've thrown our hard-earned money at them for the movies and music they make, most of them just do yet another "song and dance" while revelling in the media spotlight, making them look like champions.
How about matching dollar for dollar or doubling whatever was contributed by the public? If they can throw $1000 at a barmaid, waiter, or a craps table, they can certainly afford to give back to society more than just singing us a few bars or smiling in front of a camera in a rallying cry for us to donate.
Give me a break. You go, Gates. You do your thing. 
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06-15-2006, 11:14 PM
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Intellectual
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Bill gives away BILLIONS 8O 
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06-16-2006, 01:29 AM
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According to Forbes Magazine, his giving of $28.2B was, at the time of the article, 37% of his net worth.
He seems to have a genuine concern for others needs.
Just MY opinion.
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06-16-2006, 06:44 AM
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You know what's sad? A few years back I had a discussion with a 'friend' and she was harping on and on about how unimpressed with his charity she was since he could give away so much more. Talk about missing the big picture.
I'm very sad to see this but the good he will be able to do will be unmatched and probably unprecedented..
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06-16-2006, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Tierran
You know what's sad? A few years back I had a discussion with a 'friend' and she was harping on and on about how unimpressed with his charity she was since he could give away so much more. Talk about missing the big picture.
I'm very sad to see this but the good he will be able to do will be unmatched and probably unprecedented..
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If she starts harping again, ask her if she thinks that the work he did at Microsoft wasn't worthy enough to earn the money he has. He worked hard (For a lot of smaller companies, too hard ), he deserves to spend his money as he sees fit. Bill Gates' master plan, from what I've read, is to give away most everything he has by the time he leaves this world, leaving only a fraction of his current wealth to his children, so that they don't become the next Paris Hilton.
So world's richest man has given billions + plans on giving away almost all + just wants to space it out so he can enjoy the giving = Great plan.
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06-16-2006, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Tierran
how unimpressed with his charity she was since he could give away so much more.
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stupid person's typical babbling.
she doesn't understand anything.
surely she is one of the first to fill her own pockets but not to give anything back.
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06-16-2006, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Tierran
You know what's sad? A few years back I had a discussion with a 'friend' and she was harping on and on about how unimpressed with his charity she was since he could give away so much more. Talk about missing the big picture.
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She's not alone: Lots of people understand intuitively that it is very easy to spend somebody else's money or decide how much somebody else is worth or how much they need. Where the rubber hits the road is in your own pocket. Like Raphael says, the issue is how much it costs you, and that isn't measured in straight number terms. I'm a lot more impressed by the pensioner on welfare who gives a few $/�/whatever and therefore has to go without meat that week than I am with the celeb who drops 10k and doesn't miss a penny of it.
Bill's desire to give pretty much all of his money away, which will cost him the sort of lifestyle he could have if he kept it, is inspiring and, thankfully, he isn't the only one out there with that attitude.
Go givers!
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06-16-2006, 03:34 PM
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I think it's great when someone like Bill Gates comes along and just simply has the moral capacity and the intestinal fortitude to want to be a giver. Good on ya, Bill! your a rarity :wink:
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