[Ipg-smz] Steve Ballmer's philanthropic interests

[Scott Mace]

Along those lines, I was at a talk in Qatar last 
week about Bill Gates' other nonprofit, Global 
Good, and heard concerns from a reporter from 
West Africa that Gates would parachute in 
technology or ownership of said technology to 
Africa and thus quash any entrepreneurial 
initiatives to solve the same problems in 
developing countries that Global Good purports to solve.

Scott Mace

At 11:43 AM 11/12/2018, you wrote:
>Ballmer has recently been saying nothing but 
>good about Linux and open source. Ballmer is, of 
>course, still the single larges shareholder of 
>Microsoft, so I imagine that his change of heart 
>is brought about by his own economic reality, 
>not that Microsoft is dependent of Linux and 
>open source. Just guessing, however. Christine 
>Hall Publisher & Editor FOSS Force: Keeping tech 
>free http://fossforce.com On 11/12/18 2:29 PM, 
>Phil Shapiro wrote: > > So Steve Ballmer and his 
>wife have a new found interest for "economical > 
>mobility for kids who are born into the poorest 
>families. > > (As explained in the WSJ article 
>at > 
>https://www.wsj.com/articles/steve-ballmers-bid-for-an-educated-citizenry-1542037529)  
> > >  Â  Â  Wondering how long it might take him 
>to find the value proposition > offered by open 
>source in that regard. > >  Â  Â  Â  Â Although, 
>if he found value in open source, wouldn't he 
>be > spreading cancer? Spreading cancer to the 
>most vulnerable > members of society? > > 
>https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/  
> > >  Â  Â  Â  Â  Here's something worth 
>wondering - would his comments of 2001 > have 
>harmed the parents of the children he is now 
>seeking to help. > >  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â That's worth 
>thinking about. Damage done becomes difficult 
>to > become 
>undone. > >  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â  Â 
>Â Phil > > -- > Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com > 
>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html > 
>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro > 
>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html > > 
>  "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates > 
>"Learning happens thru gentleness." > "We must 
>reinvent a future free of blinders so that we 
>can choose from > real options." Â David 
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