Bill Gates’ gift to Bill, Sr.: Law Scholarships
Tuesday
Dec 6, 2005
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, erstwhile Chairman, and currently Chief Software Architect, has surprised his dad, William, Sr., on the latter’s 80th birthday with a very special gift: a law scholarship at University of Washington under his name.
Nothing gaudy or flashy, nothing stylish or sleek. In fact, nothing for himself at all. Instead, something to inspire public service in others, something to give back. Something he has insisted on long before his son became the world’s richest man.
So when Bill Gates Sr. turned 80 Wednesday, his son surprised him with this: an 80-year scholarship program for the University of Washington School of Law in the elder Gates’ name.
Chanced by this article via DIGG, and I read some very interesting comments. Some conclude that Bill is not evil, after all. Some go by the “charity-contributions-equals-tax-cuts” dogma. But an interesting few say Bill is evil, after all, because the world will end up with more lawyers!
J. Angelo Racoma is a technology journalist and blogger. See more of his blog posts here at racoma.com.ph, commentaries at racoma.net, and Twitter feed at @jangelo.
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