Bill Gates Net Worth Page

[Andilinks]

Recently Bill Gates pledged $100 million to fight AIDS in India. I applaud him for this but to put it in perspective, it took him 18 days to accumulate $100 million...

for more of this see:

http://www.quuxuum.org/~evan/bgnw.html

[jimbo]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ndia_condom_dc

[Randall]

I like this part the best:

It cost Mike Tyson $3 million (he forfeited 10% of the fight purse) when he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear in a boxing match. Assuming that piece of ear weighed about 1/2 an ounce, Bill could afford to eat 353.29 pounds of Evander Holyfield if he were so inclined.

Or maybe that's just because it's almost time for lunch...

Randall

[Dunx]

Originally posted by Andilinks:
Recently Bill Gates pledged $100 million to fight AIDS in India. I applaud him for this but to put it in perspective, it took him 18 days to accumulate $100 million...

Another piece of perspective is that at the same time Microsoft spent over $400 million to, well, bribe the Indian government not to use Linux (this money to be spent over a much shorter period than the AIDS money, too).

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html

I'd love to not appear cynical about this, but that can be difficult sometimes. Apparently RMS went to India at the same time to talk to folk and the ears closed after Bill's visit -

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php...12-26-NW-BZ-MS