Re: [tlug] Re: [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

["david.blomberg@example.com" <david.blomberg@example.com>]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 14:24 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> david.blomberg@example.com writes:
> 
>  > As for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.  They do some good but
>  > they do a lot of bad.
> 
> AFAICT by "bad" you mean that they continue to make money on their
> investments?
Specifically I mean earning a profit by investing in companies that are
working with and exploiting child slave labor, working with genocidal
warlords. Last and probably least working with pharmaceutical companies
that put profit over peoples lives.  The very wikipedia earlier
discussed cited an account where they were made aware of the problem,
They promised to take action and later said no we plan to take no
action.  
  Don't get me wrong I am thankful for every bit of good the Gates
Foundation does.  That said this "bad" cannot be excused by any amount
of good.

   As for the whole slope of this argument.  Am I the only MS certified
person on this list? (W2K MCSE).

The other dave