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November 12, 2003

Shel Israel blogs about the Gates Foundation

Shel Israel of Conferenza and ItSeemsToMe has started blogging with a piece praising the Gates Foundation and wondering why more people don't think well of it.

Is it true that people don't think well of the Foundation? Shel's evidence is that the speaker at Pop!Tech from the Foundation wasn't rated all that highly. I was at Pop!Tech and I rated her an 8 out of 10 not because I don't like Gates or his Foundation but because I thought the presentation itself was good but not great.

I was initially skeptical about the Foundation but I've been mightily impressed with it ever since. So, of course I assume everyone else is, too. Ah, the Data Point of One. Welcome to the blogosphere, Shel!

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 12, 2003 09:23 AM

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The standard knock on Gates as philanthropist that I hear is that its propensity for giving away Microsoft products smells too much like an attempt to co-opt the open-source philosophy to the ends of promoting its own market share. An Indian fellow I talked to at the World Social Forum, for example, likens Redmond to a tobacco company: hook users on your product and you raise the migration threshold for the alternatives.

Posted by: Colin from Bklyn | September 16, 2004 06:59 AM

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