that gathered extreme wealth by breaking the law and using his status to evade the consequences. Along the way he also pushed the world into accepting his company's lack of competence and built-in failures as "the way computers are".

So, it's really not too surprising that everything else he does smacks of the same arrogant blindness and complete lack of concern for consequences.

I still put my fist in the air and shake it every time I have to use Microsoft something. Excel is the biggest piece of crap I can think of and why has it changed so damn little in the last twenty years? It's like writing if then statements in DOS. It's like accounting with an abacus. But when you have to send your crappy spreadsheet to clients who use Windows (est. Dark Ages) they are too beaten down to even think of accepting another file. Arrrrgggghhhh!!!

And it is so funny, truly ha ha funny, that every philanthropic effort on the part of the most charitable man in the history of history just happens to make $$ for him and his friends. He's got the Midas touch!

-Laelth

The vested interests are happy to watch the schools fail.

-Laelth

Take away their money until they do better.

to Big Pharma, helping them toss their untested R & D research vaccines on the kiddies in the third world, with deaths in the tens of thousands. (Don't you agree the world already has too many people?)

Who has also made sure that ugly innovative efforts by small tech gurus can't get off the ground because of his closed source computer dictates. Do we really need more small time business startups, who might take away some of the profits of this Tech Giant?

And surely you don't want to hinder the new pro-Corporate designs of a school system that will help kids learn to immediately defer to whatever is being taught them.

Four legs, closed business, pro-Corporate is good, critical thinking is BahBahDD!