After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Gates Foundation's 'dirty secret'
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Mr Gates personal ideological view is that knowledge should be treated
> | as property, and that the owners should always seek monopoly-rents
> | (royalties) and he's said to direct the Gates foundation to mirror
> | this ideology, harming the very people he is trying to help.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | In my ideal world, we could turn Gates ideology into honest
> | philanthropy, but I'm skeptical that a man who became the richest
> | man on the planet via societal misinformation around the nature of
> | knowledge is going to turn around any time soon.
> `----
>
> http://p2pnet.net/story/10944
Shut up, you asshole knowledge worker! That's the stupidest thing I
ever read!
<laughing>
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"Your team is the stupidest team in the company!" -- memo from Gates to
Jim McCarthy, C++ team leader, as documented in his book "The Dynamics
of Software Development", Microsoft Press. (Disclaimer As remembered by
the Linonut -- check the exact wording yourself.)
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