'This altruistic attempt should be appreciated'
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Fri Nov 15 18:12:07 2002
Name:RajeshJian
Email:rajesh@anytimeloan.com
Your Views:He is here for both , i.e. Business as well as for serving humanities. More important is that he is helping the human world for better living, which normally people forget when they reach success in their life. I apprecite his contribution towards AIDS.
Fri Nov 15 18:25:43 2002
Name:Golu
Email:noname@noadrress.com
Your Views:We are indian crabs! We cant do anything for ourself/indians. If someone tries to do, we become spectical & start looking for some holes. JaiHind!
Fri Nov 15 18:12:19 2002
Email:B.SUBRAHMANYAM
Email:bosubra@yahoo.com
Your Views:WHATEVER IT MAY BE, HE IS HELPING TO FIGHT WITH AIDS,WHICH ALL INDIANS SHOULD APPRECIATE AND FEEL GREATFUL.AS EVERY BODY KNOWS OUR POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPTED AND THEY ALWAYS INVOLVED IN FILLING THEIR OWN COFFERS,THEY DONT DO MUCH ON ISSUES LIKE POVERTY,PUBLIC HEALTH,UNEMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION.OUR DEMOCRACY,LAW AND ORDER AND LEGAL SYSTEMS ARE TOTAL FAILURE,WE CANT EXPECT OUR OWN SYSTEM ABLE TO HELP OUR POOR PEOPLE.IT IS REALLY HEARTNING TO KNOW THAT SOME BODY FROM FORIGEN COUNTRY IS TRYING TO HELP INDIANS .SO MR.GATES GENEROSITY SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN OTHERWISE.EVERY BODY SHOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WHO COME FORWARD TO UNDERTAKE SUCH A NOBEL TASKES.
Fri Nov 15 18:13:24 2002
Name:hebrew rajeev manohar
Email:hrajeevm@rediffmail.com
Your Views:good achivement
Fri Nov 15 18:13:29 2002
Name:shweta
Email:shweta_1435@rediffmail.com
Your Views:i think it's a big shame even to suspect his generosity . but iguess illiterate media personalities and some stupid political leaders will never ever understand what great a personality gates is !! and it is foolish to expect the journalists to think so as they w/o any knowledge of science and technology
Fri Nov 15 18:13:55 2002
Name:sivasankaran
Email:ksivasankaran@hotmail.com
Your Views:Purely business tactic of bill gates, but i think it is profit for india, so welcome gates...
Fri Nov 15 18:14:04 2002
Name:Sundaresan Ramesh
Email:rammys@sify.com
Your Views:Bill Gates is a nice guy in charity & a wise guy in business
Fri Nov 15 18:14:13 2002
Name:Sundaresan Ramesh
Email:rammys@sify.com
Your Views:Bill Gates is a nice guy in charity & a wise guy in business
Fri Nov 15 18:14:19 2002
Name:Murali
Email:muralichary1976@hotmail.com
Your Views:I'm surprised why this debate had to arise. The money he spent was on AIDS patient whose computer literacy would be negligible. Ofcourse its his money and he has got every right to spend it the way he wants.
Fri Nov 15 18:14:21 2002
Name:Vrashank
Email:vrashank@yahoo.com
Your Views:It is not Gates who is generous, but it is our Indian politicians who are begging him. What Gates has given to India is just small piece of his wealth. Instead making fault with Gates, can we just look ahead use the money properly?
Fri Nov 15 18:14:22 2002
Name:Anuj Handa
Email:handa_anuj@hotmail.com
Your Views:Innocence of our politicians and single shot effort to become hi-tech and to catch masses eye balls and create vote bank, our politicians have left no stone overturned to welcome a Business Man. Individually we may respect Bill Gates and adore him of his effort and business sense. But our politicians have made a self respecting Indian ashamed of putting sunch a large country literly begging in front of Bill Jee. It seems that Indian Nation is bowing to Bill Gates not individuals. The inclination of our politicians towards big national and International business tycoons is not new. Reason is clear. Surely the donation of millions towards AIDS is acknowledged and thanked. But will it reach the real end-users will remain a mystery. Clearly one can see it as meticously crafted actions of Bill Gates who has a strong business sense which at one go creates a image of Mesiha and parallely does indirect marketing.This is probably the reason why he earns 15,000 Rs per second. Its a sorry state that we consider that only Microsoft technology is the ultimate and only technology available in this world to execute Bill Ji's Vision blind foldedly.Where do they fit in our system and life ?
Fri Nov 15 18:14:23 2002
Name:max
Name:abc@hotmail.com
Your Views:I believe his visit was totally business oriented and nothing else. He came in india to build its product brand, he is very well aware that india is an IT power so let's target it first. Why should a businessman donate such huge amount without any cause behind it.. It's a fact that every businessman has logic behind his move
Fri Nov 15 18:14:27 2002
Name:Amit Midha
Email:amidha3@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Bill Gates is a businessman,and businessmen always have the idea of profits in mind,i am sure it is a business move on his part.
Fri Nov 15 18:15:12 2002
Name:Suresh
Email:manilsuresn@yahoo.com
Your Views:One cannot predict the exact purpose of the visit but what ever be the case bill gates has really being generous in donating to India.There may be negative views also but still Billgates was great. As per business strategy goes that everyone company CEO does to market his product.Windows still dominates the market as the leading operating system because of its user
Friendly interface and the support of it for other devices. A company having a staff which comprises of 20% Indians all over the world will definitely think some contribution for them and for their country. Hats off to u billy for your generous contribution.We IT profesionals will definitely respect that and expect such more from u in near future. Gr88888888
Fri Nov 15 18:15:20 2002
Name:Suresh
Email:mailsureshn@yahoo.com
Your Views:One cannot predict the exact purpose of the visit but what ever be the case bill gates has really being generous in donating to India.There may be negative views also but still Billgates was great. As per business strategy goes that everyone company CEO does to market his product.Windows still dominates the market as the leading operating system because of its user
Friendly interface and the support of it for other devices. A company having a staff which comprises of 20% Indians all over the world will definitely think some contribution for them and for their country. Hats off to u billy for your generous contribution.We IT profesionals will definitely respect that and expect such more from u in near future. Gr88888888
Fri Nov 15 18:15:31 2002
Name:Anjaneyulu Tallapaneni
Email:atallapaneni@yahoo.com
Your Views:Here few reasons are there. 1.The first and main poinris, he is generous. 2.The second one is, as per US laws he may not give all his money to his children. 3.And final one is he might planned to get the sympathy from public to overcome the issues with the court and his opponent companies.
Fri Nov 15 18:16:24 2002
Name:manish bansal
Email:manishb1508@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Bill gates had made a contribution of $100 million to Aids prevention programme. This comes about as a surprise for some including me. Why would a person want to contribute that much wealth to some cause such as AIDS. Is AIDS really such a big problem as it is being made out to. US has already aided a lot for AIDS. INDIA is a key country for the US because is has institutions such as IIT, IIMS where students of top quality are being churned out for working in US. So India can be seen as a outsourcing centre. I would like to say Bill Gates is aiding to prevent its own downfall because if AIDS grows as an epidemic in INDIA, it wont give it required people to work and make it richer, bringing about its own downfall. A stable India is needed by the US and GATES for checking the ISLAMIC funadamentalism which is a big threat past 9/11. So there are more interests. Moreover GATES is grateful to INDIA for what its people has given to the company making it what it is today. This altruistic attempt to give back something to the people of INDIA should be appreciated.
Fri Nov 15 18:16:33 2002
Name:Jayesh Bhavsar
Email:jayesh_hb@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Its very clever business application of his commercial mind which would definitely fetch him goodwill and also save his money which he may to pay off in form of taxes in his country. As far as i understand, this will also add up to his business and check the downfall of various Microsoft products. All in all its well planned act which seems altruistic from outside but has many commercial purposes served internally. Hats off to his commercial mind.
Fri Nov 15 18:17:08 2002
Name:Akshay Joshi
Email:akki_boy@hotmail.com
Your Views:Hi All, I would be rather surprised if the richest capitalist in the world would be so purely altruistic. I assume it has an hidden agenda to it .An agenda that has been rightly stated in your question itself.Brand buildign & comeptitor killing rather than philanthrophy. - -Akshay
Fri Nov 15 18:17:15 2002
Name:Akshay Joshi
Email:akki_boy@hotmail.com
Your Views:Hi All, I would be rather surprised if the richest capitalist in the world would be so purely altruistic. I assume it has an hidden agenda to it .An agenda that has been rightly stated in your question itself.Brand buildign & comeptitor killing rather than philanthrophy. - -Akshay
Fri Nov 15 18:17:19 2002
Name:Vichar
Email:vichar4u@hotmail.com
Your Views:Why we cannot take generosity peacefully and gracefully! Let me get this LINUX bit out of the way. Indian developers are driven by the platform that is chosen by their customers who are mainly in US and Europe. We do not develop for Indian Markets…do we? Visual Basic popularity is driven by development for Indian Application for the Indian Markets? Why was JAVA so popular? To build application for the Indian market? Let us get rid on this fantasy we live in. Second claim that the Indian Government was tending to move to LINUX. Indian Government is not going to find one application developer for LINUX and only if US government shifts to LINUX we will have LINUX applications in India. So Indian government moving to LINUX is just good newspaper stuff we all know it can never happen in reality. Let us not put undue importance to the India IT industry and extrapolate like NASSCHOM does which is remarkably off the mark. It is really sad
Fri Nov 15 18:17:56 2002
Name:jasbir
Email:djjd@hdh.com
Your Views:atleast good for india
Fri Nov 15 18:18:07 2002
Name:raghunath tewari
Email:raghunathtewari@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:i think the main motive is 2 stop people from switching over 2 linux.otherwise it can be that he just knows the huge indian market with its increasing demands towards it
Fri Nov 15 18:19:11 2002
Name:Prabhjyot Singh
Email:accent_77@hotmail.com
Your Views:
Fri Nov 15 18:19:25 2002
Name:Sundaresan Ramesh
Email:rammys@sify.com
Your Views:Bill Gates is a nice guy in charity & a wise guy in business
Fri Nov 15 18:19:38 2002
Name:Nagarajan
Email:mithilaiy@yahoo.com
Your Views:Being a human being, Bill Gates should be well appreciated for his noble gesture. But the primary motive of the Monopoly is to capture the wide Indian market. This is what he is eyeing for. If he had started a foundation wherein he brought out the talent of Indians to the outside world it would have been good for India. Like a daily in Hyderabad put it as "Bill to Bill" would sum up his entire business motive. In the race we would be loosing a lot of our Sameer Batias. :-)
Fri Nov 15 18:19:59 2002
Name:C.N.Harman,
Email:cnharman@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:He is a true philanthropist.It is absolutely unnecessary and uncalled for to attribute any motives to true and absolute philanthropic actions of any one. All Indians should thank him heartily for such a large sum being donated by him to try to save our countrymen from dreaded diseases.
Fri Nov 15 18:20:03 2002
Name:Ravi Shankar Kumar D
Email:ravishankarkumar@hotmail.com
Your Views:Hi, Definetely it is to improve public relations and brand name. Ofcourse whatever the view one has to see that he is helping to prevent AIDS.
Fri Nov 15 18:20:10 2002
Name:Vinay Middha
Email:vinay.middha@read-ink.com
Your Views:Why India? * Yes to strengthen Microsofts image so that Windows users stay with windows. * To impress state govs and help Microsoft win e-governance contracts despite of world class indian sw companies.
Fri Nov 15 18:20:48 2002
Name:JK
Email:jk@yahoo.com
Your Views:I don't know.
Fri Nov 15 18:20:54 2002
Name:Amar Pal
Email:amar_pal@hotmail.com
Your Views:There are two aspects of Gates that should be appreciated. Firstly, his $100MM donation and secondly, his marketing savvy to use his image and PR to Microsoft's benefit. It is a classic example of how businesses contribute to causes that result in direct/indirect benefit to its financial cause. Does this mean that Gates is an evil man with a hidden agenda? No, not at all. His generocity should be appreciated and encouraged. The Indian software industry is savvy enough to choose platforms that are ideal and cost effective. They do not fall into the marketing gimmicks and choose a platform that helps the bottom line. So if Linux is cheap and effective they will continue to choose Linux. However, it is the politicians that can fall in the PR trap. Each of them take pride in associating themselves with Bill Gates and sign up IT deals that may / may not be the ideal choice.
Fri Nov 15 18:20:54 2002
Name:AC
Email:anim8r@rediffmail.com
Your Views:It definately a visit to combat the scourge of Linux in India and the 'Project Shiksha-Empowering The Future'(of Micro$oft?) ;-)
Fri Nov 15 18:21:19 2002
Name:Ranjan Mishra
Email:ranjan_mishra@hotmail.com
Your Views:You don't need to mix them. As long as he is not doing illegal things and supporting a noble cause, its justified. If this has a positive effect on Microsoft , thats great. If the social cause does not benefit a business , no organisation will come forward. Yes, he has developed mind share, through this excercise, but nothing wrong in it. He may have business agenda out of Rs 2000 Cr, but how many are doing it in India or for that matter globally
Fri Nov 15 18:21:25 2002
Name:C.N.Harman,
Email:cnharman@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:He is a true philanthropist.It is absolutely unnecessary and uncalled for to attribute any motives to true and absolute philanthropic actions of any one. All Indians should thank him heartily for such a large sum being donated by him to try to save our countrymen from dreaded diseases.
Fri Nov 15 18:21:51 2002
Name:Ravi
Email:ravilance@usa.net
Your Views:Who Cares!! Use his Money and also do what is best. If Linux is worth it's salt let's adopt it and trash windows. It don't really matter what his intentions are.
Fri Nov 15 18:22:16 2002
Name:raj
Email:raj@yahoo.com
Your Views:it refelects his good and humanistic character
Fri Nov 15 18:22:30 2002
Name:Sanjeev
Email:vd_sanjeev@yahoo.com
Your Views:Outser it looks he is keeping is words what he has told giving back to society. He should tell how much India as country is giving business to MS yearly & total till now. He has never told about bringing cost of software which will help to our country, instead of doing some fancy things. Let us see how much he time he spent on charity in india with his business followup & shunting out Linux. To sum up he had come to india to keep Windows alive & to close Linux which is availabel free..... sanjeev
Fri Nov 15 18:22:32 2002
Name:Rakesh kumar
Email:rakesh_dudes@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Mr Gate's third visit to india primarily show that this country has got the potential to make the mark in IT sector in the world map.Earlier our country had nothing much to draw the attention of the foreign investors and business tycoons .But now the situations are not the same.And I strongly beleive that this visit is not just his another business trip but he's got the vision and india is the right plce to be.
Fri Nov 15 18:23:07 2002
Name:ganesh
Email:nrganeshbabu@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Oh! He was just about being Indian in India - he was just gifting or in other words ...
Fri Nov 15 18:23:07 2002
Name:Dileep Reddy
Email:dil_s@rediffmail.com
Your Views:It is purely a PR exercise for his company (Microsoft), It was evident from Bill's eagerness to show Tablet PC to people attending his programs. It's a shame that our representatives (President, Prime Minister and some Chief Ministers like Naidu) give so much importance to a businessman and even set aside official protocol. (Naidu was moving around like a pet as long as Bill Gates was in Hyderabad. So much so that Naidu even forgot it was children's day and he is supposed to garland Jawahar lal's statue!)
Fri Nov 15 18:23:27 2002
Name:R.Kumar
Email:rkumar28@vsnl.net
Your Views:Mr.Gates cannot afford to ignore Indian market, esp when there is an onslaught by Linux. The perceived "genorisity" is nothing but to keep the mandarins in New Delhi happy and make them feel that their 'begging bowls" is not returned empty. Let's not forget that Mr.Gates is a professional American businessman and nothing comes "free" from his country. By granting USD 100 Million as "Aids" (out of a few 10s of billions of his personal wealth), Mr.Gates knows to extract his pound of flesh in return in the form of sale of MS Systems and products (over Linux)in India. We Indians are making a mockery of ourselves by stooping low to accept this "tips". I am confident that Indian corporates and the honchos can easily pool at least USD 100 Million (if not more!) for a good cause.
Fri Nov 15 18:23:37 2002
Name:Julius D'souza
Email:juliusdsouza@rediffmail.com
Your Views:It was about both! Business cum charity! Or Bill could've posted his cheque, sitting in the States? If I was in his place I would've also taken this opportunity to visit a nation that is hitting the headlines, to make my own. The Biblical adage of not letting your right hand know what your left is doing, has no significance today, because crime and villains dominate the news. So, when a good deed like this takes place, it should hog the headlines, as it rightfully did. Also, the headlines helped, because Bill was here on a business trip, not on a charitable one. The charity was only by the way. An act nonetheless, knowing his position, that would attract more attention than if he had to launch a new product. I am sure the AIDS topic took up more editorial space than the tablet did. In conclusion, as for the true motive behind the act of generosity, who are we to sit in judgement? Only God is qualified for that. Take people at face value. If you begin to doubt a person's integrity, there is no end to it and you'll end up as one cynical dude. I usually do not, but in this case I prefer to believe, that the motive justified the end!
Fri Nov 15 18:23:45 2002
Name:Gaurav
Email:garry3@rediffmail.com
Your Views:He may all do this to strengthen his company image and increase his market, but he is doing it with us because we are a potential market. Its a sybiosis where both are going to benifit. Solving AIDS is OK That is what is a social responsibility , but he is looking towards the future.....WinXP is just a small tip of the iceberg. There are many other things in the pipeline, and he is nourishing an future market Good day! Gaurav Public Relations Officer Axis Software Pvt Ltd
Fri Nov 15 18:24:12 2002
Name:SatishKumar
Email:satishvithala@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes..His intention could be doubted.Haunted by legal problems back home..he wants a location which speaks English well and has huge population and talent and ofcourse a bit backward in awareness of IT application/System usage.He could single out India.So he is here.But his work for AIDS victims shouldnot be forgotten and I hope it reaches the right people thru' NGOs and not through corrupt politicians.May be we need not buy Windows(compared to much more robust OS like Unix or Linux) because he is doing a service for AIDS elimination..but we could probably help him in his pursuit for doing well in life.
Fri Nov 15 18:24:37 2002
Name:Pradeep Singh
Email:seatradeindia@hotmail.com
Your Views:promotion of Christanity through the christian groups though whom the AIDS Aid money will be distributed into India .
Fri Nov 15 18:24:47 2002
Name:Ram Tammineedi
Email:trkc@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Bill Gates has always been generous, and in a bid to give back for what Indians have contributed to MS, he has really done an examplery job. Pessimists suck.
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