{"id":8,"date":"2006-01-27T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-01-27T13:27:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T20:27:46","slug":"gates-vs-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/gates-vs-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Gates vs. Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice little editorial <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,70072-0.html?tw=macintouch\">here<\/a> at Wired news which voices an opinion I&#8217;ve held for awhile: as much as people despise Microsoft and envy Bill Gates for his money, it&#8217;s hard to argue with the contributions he&#8217;s made to very worthwhile causes. Elsewhere in today&#8217;s news it&#8217;s mentioned that Gates is giving $900M to tuberculosis research. Steve Jobs, on the other hand, doesn&#8217;t seem to do much of anything in the way of charitable donations. Don&#8217;t tell me that it makese a difference that Gates is the richest man in the world and Jobs is only the 194th richest man in the world (not counting that he&#8217;s going to rise in the ranks considerably after the Disney\/Pixar deal). The point is that Gates is putting very real money into causes that benefit humanity, and Jobs isn&#8217;t. Consider that next time you think you&#8217;re being politically correct by buying an Apple product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice little editorial here at Wired news which voices an opinion I&#8217;ve held for awhile: as much as people despise Microsoft and envy Bill Gates for his money, it&#8217;s hard to argue with the contributions he&#8217;s made to very worthwhile causes. Elsewhere in today&#8217;s news it&#8217;s mentioned that Gates is giving $900M to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/gates-vs-jobs\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gates vs. Jobs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}