Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Bill Gates has announced that he is resigning from the boards of Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway, to focus full time on Climate Change and Philanthropy.
Focusing My Time
Published on March 14, 2020
Bill Gates Influencer
Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationI have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve – Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway – to dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities including global health and development, education, and my increasing engagement in tackling climate change. The leadership at the Berkshire companies and Microsoft has never been stronger, so the time is right to take this step.
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Bill has been having a very tough time with his climate activism.
In 2015 Bill Gates announced a green tech fund to make renewable energy viable, though by 2018 his enthusiasm for renewables had waned a little.
In 2015 Bill Gates described representative democracy as a “problem”, because voters frequently select politicians who do not believe climate change is an urgent issue.
Bill Gates, for all his faults, is a remarkable individual, not someone who gives up easily. But stubbornness can sometimes be a trap.
Bill Gates was a ruthless businessman who got a massive opportunity when a plane full of IBM executives crashed; effectively removing IBM from the personal computer competitive forefront.
Personal computers in the IBM management structure were brought back into IBM’s rigid slow decision paths.
An opportunity Bill Gates got because the owner/programmer for CP/M operating system, Gary Kildall, blew off IBM’s staid pompous executives.
IBM returned to Microsoft and Bill Gates promised an operating system that became known as DOS (disk operating system) and marketed their own version of DOS, MDOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System).
I doubt Bill gates is any less ruthless now.
But, Bill is so rich that he believes he can buy success and opinions.
Let me know when he sells his gigantic island home, Xanadu 2.0; and moves into a house many meters above the sea that currently is not far away from Xanadu 2.0.
Do not forget that the OS Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer was called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating system. It lived up to its name unto the 10th generation.
Bought?
Gates’ company invented “the blue screen of death”. The renewable energy analog is the wind farm, which actually stops working when the atmosphere is providing the most wind energy, and the solar farm which doesn’t work when it is most needed.
Also, I am a big believer in free market economics (the opposite of socialism), but the market is not always right. Microsoft Windows is proof of that. Gates must be really smart if he can dominate the small computer market with the POS Windows.
Actually it was the GPF, General Protection Fault. Or in IBM OS/2 speak, a Trap D (Same thing) (Don’t get me started on an OS/2 Trap 2). Over time both were written out and ignored. The BSOD came later and was, sorry, is still, classic. Even featured in the Bejing(?) Olympics a few years back.
Seeing as how O/S2 was a collaboration between IBM and Microsoft to replace DOS (with or without Windows) it is not surprising O/S2 and DOS had many features in common.
It was only a matter of time before he abandoned Microsoft – all those electrically powered computers that were supposed to save people time and result in less working hours – in fact the opposite occurred-
Bill would be nowhere without fossil fuels – the guilt he must feel – SHOULD FEEL IF HE’S A AGWist – which is why I strongly suggest (which are terms most climate articles resort to) he backs nuclear power – cause he knows – cause of him – most humans and their work places are now totally reliant on computers – even if they no longer use Microsoft –
People like Gates and Branson only get involved in things when there is money to be made from doing as little as possible. It’s a sc@m.
If cars were like computers;
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/car-balk/
Mr Gates,
On the off-chance that one of your staff reads this blog, could I ask that you use a bit of lateral thinking and fund research into non-CO2 causes of warming? For a start please investigate the (rather outdated) information at https://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_oil_pollution.html.
There are various mechanisms by which oil pollution could cause warming.
JF
There is no consequence which requires mitigation. I wonder what he’s going to do.
I think on balance Bill is being an excellent person. His work on medicine and third world issues has been a big help to the world.
His efforts to invigorate nuclear energy might be effective, I certainly hope so.
If you recognize his efforts in climate change as attempts to reduce basic pollution, how could you have issues with that?
Nope. Africa need hygiene, not vaccines.
Another executive who had been seen with Epstein resigns. Interesting
Bill Gates has donated to the Clinton Foundation, a “charitable” foundation that is not even legally registered as such. For a detailed breakdown of Clinton Foundation and all the associated grifters, see Charles Ortel at “crowd source the truth”.
Here is a playlist, he has more than 200 shows, many hours of viewing,
Click the icon, top, second from the right. A playlist of more than 200 shows (!) appears.