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Re: [News] [Rival] Poverty Strikes Microsoft Neighbourhood


On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:04:02 +0100, Nigel Feltham wrote:

> 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?

No, they haven't been prosecuted for criminal actions. They have been 
sued by the USDOJ for their civil illegal activity. I am not sure what 
you call it in Europe.



-- 
Rick

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