[ale] Bill Gates interview NYT

[lollipopman691]

And they should've mentioned his ruthless and scandalous 'charity' WRT public schools ( https://schoolleadership20.com/forum/topics/15-years-of-bill-gates-s-experimentation ). But hey, then Bill might not talk to Mr. Wallace-Wells ever again, and the reporter's gotta feed his dog somehow.

-- CHS





On Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 3:02 PM, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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