____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 03 November 2007 14:36 : \____
> Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Oct 30, 10:16 am, Nick Ballard <nrball...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sorry Nick, gotta disagree with you on this one.
>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=o1bMZ2pt7M0
>>
>> Watching an extreme right-winger slamming the Gates foundation because
>> they support birth control and family planning is amusing.
>>
>
> <snippage>
>
> Rex, these issues have been being addressed by real charities (ie., not
> tax havens for multi-millionaires trying to launder their ill-gotten
> gains), such as Oxfam, Medicine sans frontiers, Christian Aid and many
> many others.
>
> Gate's outfit is about trying to squeeze opportunities for Microsoft in
> all these countries, whereas the above are *real charities*.
>
> If the gates foundation /really/ wanted to help, without any strings
> attached, they would make donations to the existing charities from their
> foundation. They would certainly *not* be making trips to Nigeria in
> order to push Mandriva off PCs for schoolkids in order to get Windows
> on. This is *not* charitable work, this is a marketing arm for
> Microsoft. The gap between the two could hardly be wider.
Nick, why did you pull the video?
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