[ale] Bill Gates interview NYT

[Bob Toxen]

Great job!  NYT also should asked about his illegal monopoly practice of
destroying or buying the competition and corrupt licensing contracts to
large clients like the U.S. Federal government.  Let's not forget his
"charity" tax write-off "donations" that limits recipients to buying
Microsoft products!

His original sin was buying DOS for only $50,000 and then making
billions.

Bob

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 06:52:47PM +0000, lollipopman691 via Ale wrote:
> I am sending this to the New York Times re the latest Sunday Magazine,
> which features a softball interview with mr. Bill Gates.

> David Wallace Wells
> New York Times Magazine
> letters at nytimes.com

> Your interview with Bill Gates in this week's New York Times magazine
> was filled with softball questions. It avoided the real difficulties
> with Mr. Gates's contributions both to software and to charity.  I am
> quite sure you're familiar with Mr. Gates' famous letter to hobbyists
> ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists ). Here are
> some questions I would've been more interested in having answered.

>    * Who gets to make vaccines for the third world?  You are on
> record saying that COVID vaccines should remain proprietary, with
> royalties going to the biggest drug companies in the world. How do you
> feel now about malaria drugs, or filariasis drugs?

>    * Unlike hybrid plants, GMO seeds can be made to breed true. Should
> third-world farmers pay royalties to the first-world companies who
> develop those seeds after the first crop is in?  Are those companies
> within their rights to engineer genetic traps into GMO seeds which will
> prevent farmers from planting seeds saved from their own crops? Are they
> within their rights to engineer seeds which require tailored chemicals
> available only from them to germinate or to grow?

>    * When local-language artificial intelligence tools lie to
> ("hallucinate") farmers or businessmen about best practices and those
> people lose their livelihoods or savings, who pays? Does anyone?

> Sadly, none of these questions made it into the interview.

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