[Foundation-l] Thinking for the Future

Thu Mar 27 02:26:22 UTC 2008

I'm not sure that we are anti-Microsoft. The Foundation has been open to
accepting funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We all know
which corporation's CEO earned that money. In other domains, such as cancer
research, their has typically been a public outcry when it becomes known
that a tobacco company, usually via proxy of a non-profit, funded the
research. I heard no such outcry. It just happened to be that the B&M Gates
Foundation is clueless in this domain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/health/research/26lung.html

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 27/03/2008, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  > On 27/03/2008, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  >  > What exactly are you thinking of investing in? Tax free munis?
> T-Bills? Money Market Account?
> >  >
> >  >  Whatever the foundation's professional expert advisers suggest.
> >
> >
> > What if they suggest something icky, like Microsoft stock?
>
> If we're that anti-Microsoft, we can just tell the advisers that and
> they can tailor their advice accordingly.
>
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