Re: Macs and PCs aren't so very different
"As a famous Commodore engineer once said: There's nothing nasty about Bill Gates, and there's nothing nice about Steve Jobs.
... and oh boy was he wrong.
Bill-boy was at least as nasty as Steve, but on different level because market position. So much nasty they stalled DoJ in monopoly abuse case so long that the president they'd bought got elected and dismissed whole case as a pay-back for "campaign money".
There aren't many companies who can reach that level of evilness, not even IBM could.
The pensioneer-Bill is totally different animal, has barely any connection at all to former Bill. But he's not losing money: A charity you own is still personally yours. Except you don't pay taxes.
Also inheriting a charity is not taxable. Think about that a while ... all of those billions and $0 inheritance tax. And you get to claim in public that "heirs aren't inheriting any money".
Which is true, they just inherit the sole ownership of a foundation. Which owns tens of billions.
I repeat: Bill is not losing money with this 'charity' thing: 5% of the capital to charity purposes (choose whatever you want), the rest is yours. 5% yearly profit without taxes should be trivial to any company. Even without stock gains.
Totally legal of course, that's the whole idea: Tax loopholes for the ultra rich.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
