What the ....

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Jun 16 2006, 9:17 am
Well in the morning i was looking television and putted on the news.So then something comes about Bill gates.And what is it.He leaves Microsoft.He has made an charity club with his wife.That means he is going into charity.
But now im in like of all those questions like:
Who is going to take Microsoft over.

What do you people think about this?
Jun 16 2006, 9:19 am
He's had his foundation for years, and he's not retiring until 2008.
Jun 16 2006, 9:30 am
Take over the company? He doesn't run it now. He has not ran the company for many years. He still works there, but mostly as an advisor and a stratigest. I really don't think it will affect the Microsoft company in the least.
Jun 16 2006, 12:10 pm
Soccerguy13 wrote:
My aunt is friends with someone who knows and meets with Bill Gates, and I have been hoping I could meet him. That will probably never happen, though.

If you ever meet him, see if he'd be willing to donate a mere 0.01% of his fortune to BYOND. I've already donated far more than that to the cause (especially if you count my time), so surely he can manage that tiny little amount.
Jun 16 2006, 12:22 pm
In response to Mike H
Mike H wrote:
Soccerguy13 wrote:
My aunt is friends with someone who knows and meets with Bill Gates, and I have been hoping I could meet him. That will probably never happen, though.

If you ever meet him, see if he'd be willing to donate a mere 0.01% of his fortune to BYOND. I've already donated far more than that to the cause (especially if you count my time), so surely he can manage that tiny little amount.

That'd give BYOND a huge financial boost! Get him to donate!
Jun 16 2006, 1:03 pm
In response to Mike H
Mike H wrote:
If you ever meet him, see if he'd be willing to donate a mere 0.01% of his fortune to BYOND.


Just curious, approximately how much money would that be?
Jun 16 2006, 1:07 pm
In response to GokuDBZ3128
About 5 million dollars, from the numbers I have heard.
Jun 16 2006, 1:42 pm
In response to GokuDBZ3128
GokuDBZ3128 wrote:
Mike H wrote:
If you ever meet him, see if he'd be willing to donate a mere 0.01% of his fortune to BYOND.


Just curious, approximately how much money would that be?

His networth is approximently fifty billion dollars. Muliply that by 0.01% which equals roughly five hundred thousand.

It would have been five hundred million but I had the decimal point in the wrong place.
Jun 16 2006, 1:43 pm
In response to Mike H
Mike H wrote:
Soccerguy13 wrote:
My aunt is friends with someone who knows and meets with Bill Gates, and I have been hoping I could meet him. That will probably never happen, though.

If you ever meet him, see if he'd be willing to donate a mere 0.01% of his fortune to BYOND. I've already donated far more than that to the cause (especially if you count my time), so surely he can manage that tiny little amount.

Or at least advertise BYOND. Get more people.
Jun 16 2006, 8:22 pm
In response to Crzylme
50,000,000,000*.0001=5,000,000

Five million, not five hundred thousand.
Jun 17 2006, 12:40 am
Actually, if given the right angle, it might be something he'd consider...

Tom has said numerous times that his wish is for BYOND to become an educational tool... If Mr. Gates could be made to see that a properly funded BYOND could expand itself into that sector more easily, he would be helping to support the future of his industry, by funding an excellent learning tool that could springboard many, many bright young minds into the field of programming...
Jun 17 2006, 5:27 am
In response to SuperSaiyanGokuX
I wonder if 4.0 would come out faster with the five million dollars...
Jun 17 2006, 4:08 pm
In response to Gumshoe
Gumshoe wrote:
I wonder if 4.0 would come out faster with the five million dollars...

Well, of course it would. Think how many full-time programmers you could employ with five million dollars.

Let's say we want to employ them for ten years, so that's half a million dollars a year. And we want the best programmers we can get, so we pay them $100,000 a year. (Just because it's a nice round number.) Even without any additional sources of income, we can afford to employ five full-time programmers on that budget.

Of course on top of that there's server maintenance and bandwidth costs and the like, but I'm overestimating a bit - five is probably unnecessary, and I think they'd settle for lower salaries. And if BYOND isn't paying for itself and the salaries of its staff in ten years time after that injection of capital, then there's a problem. =)
Jun 18 2006, 8:32 am
In response to Artekia
oops. Didn't count the zeroes well enough.