Comments on: Gates: Wouldn't change a thing

The Microsoft chairman and founder looks forward to spending more time helping those who could most benefit from his time and assistance.

[monyako]

disgusted

News.com should be ashamed of this headline. Helping make the world a better place is now described as "slummin' it?" I just lost a significant amount of respect for this news organization in general and this report in particular. Shame.

--Monyako

[just_some_guy]

Catering to a low class audience.

Just wait - they are coming. Most of the folks who post to these forums cannot even spell Microsoft.

[onux16]

easy Tiger! (not an Apple joke)

monyako, easy there buddy. This article is written by one person, and the title I see on the page is "Gates: Wouldn't change a thing"

You're living a Fallcy of Composition -- just because Ina Fried (the author) made an offensive joke doesn't mean you should take it out on the entire site and its writers.

[monyako]

an appropriate response

The original title of the article was "slummin' it," so I posted here and wrote the author directly to share my thoughts on the choice of words. As a result News.com sensibly revised the headline.

If you don't hold a publisher accountable for what they publish - what do you hold them accountable for?

It's the author's byline.

[clayton muhler]

No Regrets = No Conscience

What now? "Give" out Windows software to starving kids? Then writing it off his taxes? And finally, forcing the starving kids to spend their other support dollars on Microsoft tie-in products? Nice plan. If Bill was a poor man, he would sell all of his family's blood for money.

[Meh234]

you've got to be kidding

Was your intent in that post to make yourself sound as stupid as humanly possible, or are you really so brain-dead that you believe what you wrote?

Gates has donated billions of dollars to charities over the years and has already pledged almost his entire personal fortune to charity. A huge part of his charity work is on the matter of world health including getting medicine to those in need and developing new cures and vaccines.

What have you done for the world lately?