Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux
The register slams Bill Gates for giving $100M to fight AIDS in India, while spending $421M to market Windows over Linux.
Although Linux has eroded a chunk of MS' biz in the corporate server OS market, Linux will never make any real in roads on the personal desktop, except in third world countries. But MS software are mostly pirated in those countries (over 95% of the software in China and Asia are pirated) anyway so MS' high prices don't really matter.
But don't be alarmed, this site, The Register and its sister The Inquirer, slams everybody. I am surprised they are still selling banner ads.
It is really shallow to just discount such a huge donation as just a marketing ploy to make more money in India, a poor nation where the average person lives in squalor and makes less than a dollar a day while rats, monkeys, and cows flurish for nonsense religous reasons.
$100,000,000 to fight AIDS in India is more than the US government has ever given to fight HIV in India or anywhere else.
It must be pointed out that the donation is from Gates' Trust, whereas the $421M is spent from MS' corp. coffers. Such big corporations spend fortunes to market their products. Worse case is McDonalds. They spend about billion dollars a year on ads to get people to chow on their secret sauce.
Peter
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html
The register slams Bill Gates for giving $100M to fight AIDS in India, while spending $421M to market Windows over Linux.
Although Linux has eroded a chunk of MS' biz in the corporate server OS market, Linux will never make any real in roads on the personal desktop, except in third world countries. But MS software are mostly pirated in those countries (over 95% of the software in China and Asia are pirated) anyway so MS' high prices don't really matter.
But don't be alarmed, this site, The Register and its sister The Inquirer, slams everybody. I am surprised they are still selling banner ads.
It is really shallow to just discount such a huge donation as just a marketing ploy to make more money in India, a poor nation where the average person lives in squalor and makes less than a dollar a day while rats, monkeys, and cows flurish for nonsense religous reasons.
$100,000,000 to fight AIDS in India is more than the US government has ever given to fight HIV in India or anywhere else.
It must be pointed out that the donation is from Gates' Trust, whereas the $421M is spent from MS' corp. coffers. Such big corporations spend fortunes to market their products. Worse case is McDonalds. They spend about billion dollars a year on ads to get people to chow on their secret sauce.
Peter
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html
