Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:36:18 -0500 From: Kelley Subject: Re: Bill Gates takes rich to task
>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.
Your memory is correct. At the time, Gates kept indicating that he would start the serious philanthropy when he stopped taking such an active role in running Microsoft. At the time, everybody chuckled and said "sure right", but he appears to have been as good as his word.
dd
who knew that Mao had sold 800m copies, but doesn't understand "Jeopardy".
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