DogStar

London

Consultant

"The world's most important philanthropist" is also the world's most important convicted monopolist.
Ask yourself a two questions:
1) Is the Gates Foundation tax efficient?
2) Can you think of a better way to generate positive PR for your failing reputation than ploughing 100s of millions (a fraction of MS' revenue) into charitable causes?
Yes, he gives a lot of money to all sorts of people but I can't help thinking that Bill's core motivation at Live 8 was self-promotion first. Altruism came a long way second.