Hadron wrote:
> Nigel Feltham <nigel.feltham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>> In article <4a877b0d$0$4426$6e1ede2f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > Besides which, Microsoft has done more for charities and the
>>>> > homeless and the 3rd world than the silly open source
>>>> > "community" ever will.
>>>>
>>>> Like?
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure he meant the Gates Foundation, not Microsoft, of course.
>>> Examples of what the Gates Foundation has done:
>>>
>>> March 2009, $350k to The Greater New Orleans Foundation, to support
>>> and build a coordinated network of Housing Resource Centers to serve
>>> property owners who have not yet recovered from Katrina.
>>>
>>> February 2009 $375k to The National Alliance to End Homelessness,
>>> Inc.
>>>
>>> December 2008 $200k to King County, Washington to support development
>>> of a family homelessness business plan.
>>>
>>> July 2008 $336k to Washington Low Income Housing Alliance to support
>>> advocacy efforts to increase affordable housing and end homelessness in
>>> Washington state.
>>>
>>> July 2008 $5.4 million to Building Changes to support their efforts
>>> aimed at reducing family homelessness.
>>>
>>> July 2008 $750k to Building Change to support capacity building
>>> efforts.
>>>
>>> May 2008 $25k to Community Shelter Board of Ohio for general
>>> operating support.
>>>
>>> April 2008 $10k to Housing Consortium of Everett and Snohomish County
>>> to support production of an Affordable Housing Action Plan for Snohomish
>>> County.
>>>
>>> March 2008 $1.3 million to Building Changes to support housing
>>> programs in the Puget Sound area.
>>>
>>> That's just the grants in the Housing and Homelessness category for 2008
>>> and 2009 so far. Many of the grants in the Community Grants category are
>>> also relevant for homelessness.
>>>
>>> As for 3rd world, here are a few, just from the category of emergency
>>> relief.
>>>
>>> Dec 2008 $1 million to Oxfam America for emergency assistance in
>>> response to a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.
>>>
>>> Nov 2008 $1.3 million to Lutheran World Relief to mitigate the impact
>>> of rising food prices on rural communities through optimum rice and
>>> wheat production in Mali and Niger.
>>>
>>> Sept 2008 $700k to Catholic Relief Services to provide emergency
>>> relief for those affected by hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike in the
>>> worst-affected areas of Haiti.
>>>
>>> Sept 2008 $2.9 million to Catholic Relief Services to provide
>>> assistance to vulnerable households in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso and
>>> Haiti in response to the global food crisis
>>>
>>> Aug 2008 $2 million to Oxfam America to assist in alleviating hunger,
>>> malnutrition, and the deterioration of health of vulnerable families
>>> caused by the food crisis and drought in the Oromia and Tigray regions
>>> of Ethiopia.
>>>
>>> July 2008 $10 million to United Nations World Food Programme to
>>> assist young children, pregnant and lactating women in Niger, Cote
>>> d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso affected by the high food prices emergency.
>>>
>>> May 2008 $1.3 million to Chinese Ministry of Health to support
>>> emergency relief activities for the Sichuan earthquake.
>>>
>>> Here's a good one from the neglected disease category:
>>>
>>> Nov 2008 $40 million to The Carter Center for Global Campaign to
>>> Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease.
>>>
>>> Complete list here:
>>>
>>> <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grants/Pages/search.aspx>
>>
>> So what - running a criminal organisation is now OK if you donate some of
>> the proceeds to charity?
>>
>> I'm sure Al Capone donated to charity as well, does that now make him one
>> of the Good Guys?
>
> You really are a grade A idiot.
>
> Criminal organisation!?!? Take your meds and go back to bed you
> loonytunes you.
So they haven't been prosecuted in the USA and Europe for their criminal
activities then and I've just imagined all the fines they've had to pay for
it in Europe?
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