Bill Gates takes rich to task

[Kelley]

At 04:27 PM 2/4/02 -0500, Nathan Newman wrote:
>The way Gates got rich was illegitimate but the way he is spending the
>proceeds is, as far as I can tell, quite admirable.  He is following in the
>footsteps of the elder Rockefeller, but more consciously and earlier in his
>connection of private philanthropy to the broader social conditions.

wasn't that a turnabout? i remember that he was roundly criticized a while 
back because he wasn't much of a philanthropist. the argument was that 
cyberlibertarians tends not to be especially generous because their wealth 
was all on paper. there was an entire spread on the topic here, when i 
first moved to FL.

kelley