10.07.2003
Posts like this one, about Bill Gates’ “homepage” on Microsoft.com, are one of the reasons why we like Sci-Fi Hi-Fi.
What’s that — you’re not convinced? Then scroll down the page a little further and marvel at the profundity of his Wall Street Journal op-ed/marketing piece, provocatively titled “Why I Hate Spam!” Only a truly bold leader would be willing to take such a controversial stand on something so near and dear to the hearts of email users everywhere. Obviously, Bill has an almost preternatural ability to home in on and analyze the important issues of the day (Spam == Bad)!
Buzz is right, the homepage really is remarkably corny and lacking in original vision, but that said, I can almost understand Bill being a little out of touch with pop technology issues like spam and digital music, despite his company’s vested interest in addressing them, as he’s starting to seem positively cutting edge on issues like world health, which most technlogy moguls don’t even have on their radar. The work the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is doing is nothing short of incredible, and may be what he’s most remembered for, long after Microsoft (which, for the record, sucks) goes the way of Standard Oil. It’s profoundly disturbing how many articles are written about junk mail and overpriced CDs and the like when millions of people are dying in Africa and other parts of the world in a catastrophic epidemic. An entire continent is dying, and at least Gates gives a damn. True - a technology visionary he’s not. But it’s in philanthropy that he’s showing true leadership, whatever his original motives may have been, and we’re all likely to owe him some thanks.
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