[Am-info] Gates Op-ed in Sunday's NYT

[Mitch Stone]

On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Paul Rickard wrote:

>      Bill is supposedly the smartest man on earth, but he doesn't 
> mention
> abstinance. Condoms are almost as failure-prone as Microsoft's own
> products. Microsoft is using the B&MGF to prop up its public image, but
> so far I've seen it do nothing that would get my support. Promoting
> condom distribution and abortion in 3rd world countries while giving
> strings-attached computer software to rural libraries (who are required
> to match every donation) is not going to do anything for anybody. it's
> obvious that they're only trying to get the liberals on their side.

Blech. Public policy by ideology hasn't ever done us any good before, 
and it isn't going to start now.

Mitch