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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (7457)	7/3/2006 7:56:36 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218160

SoT, I was not entering in the merit of the issue. Which has a merit. In fact, while in Africa, I use to think that the OPEC countries -on the 70s- should had constituted a fund for those projects (one of them I thougth was to buy a lab and invest in development of a vacine for malaria) instead of investing al their petrodollars. Those are money men who reach a point on their lives that they see they will have to hand 40%+ of their money to the govenrment. He waited to a point in his life that he's got the cash had nothing to do with it -given his age- but to hand it over to the government. He reasons that even if he dies he will still "own" that cash by handing it over to a foundation. When Gates had, say, USD12bn, he was not thinking: lets develop a program to hand over dirty cheap PCs and SW for the poorest school on the world. Do empoying computers in Africa will improve the government of those countries and we should give dscounts to them in licenses? I don;t think so. I think he was hell bent in making money and had nop concern for the poor.