Sir Bill Gates???

[pave_spectre]

I almost put this in the jokes thread but unfortunately I find it too stupid to be considered funny.

Biil Gates to be knighted (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/ngates25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html) for "services to global enterprise".:rolleyes:

[Insert Prefered Mindless Rant Here]

[Abbadon]

The knights who say "NT"? :D

Seriously though, look at it from this angle: the current state of Linux as apearing on home-users-desktops more and more, and even beeing used in governments, is largely do to Microsofts efforts. If their products didn't have such an awfull price/quality ratio, open source wouldn't have progressed as far as it did. Therefore, Bill Gates is beeing rewarded for creating a climate in which linux could trive... :p

[pave_spectre]

Thats a nice way to think of it.;)

Frankly though I think someone just needs to take the queen to one side and tell her she doesnt have to knight the entire planet.

[Abbadon]

but we gotta admit: the guy isn't all bad: (from the article)

"Mr Gates has been a notable donor to charities and good causes. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was created in 2000 to improve "equity in global health and learning". He has donated nearly $26 billion to the foundation.

The foundation set up a £139 million scholarship scheme three years ago to attract the brightest students to Cambridge University. It has also invested millions of dollars in research for an Aids vaccine."

Tho this kind of stuff usually is done to soften the tax-blow or something...:rolleyes:

[jeeza]

Sir Bill Gates ?
pave_spectre, you as a citizen of a member of the former Commonwealth should know that it's "Sir Bill" (Sir William, actually, I suppose).

[pave_spectre]

"former Commonwealth"?

What former Commonwealth.

[jeeza]

Didn't Australia belong to the British Commonwealth once ?

[pave_spectre]

It still does belong to the British Commonwealth. If you ever notice the Australian flag you will see that it has a Union Jack in the corner. Any country that has that is a member of the Commonwealth, though not all commonwealth countries have the Union Jack on their flags.

[jeeza]

I did notice the Union Jack in the corner, but that's not the problem.
I thought that the British Commonwealth didn't exist anymore (as a kind of formal entity). That's why I wrote "the former Commonwealth". See ? :)