EARLIER this week I was retweeted by Wikileaks, last night the Wall Street Journal approached me for a comment having gathered information from Techrights (regarding a patent troll), and this morning we were cited by this investigative piece from Oxford University Press about the Gates Foundation, concluding that: "Perhaps the lack of criticism by public health professionals is due to conflict of interests arising from the ubiquitous and large amount of foundation funding for public health programs and researchers. Public health professionals and organizations may be fearful of loss of funding or denial of application for funds for criticizing the foundations. Because foundations are sometimes in partnership the reaction to such critical analysis could easily diffuse across foundations and put a critic at risk at multiple foundations. Some philanthrocapitalists are sensitive to criticism and find it incredulous that anyone would consider them anything other than heroes whose financial and technological innovations they believe represent the future. They isolate themselves and become more closely associated with the other wealthy around the world than they are to average members of society and to their own country, and seem to scorn the middle class."
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Jose_X
2011-08-18 07:22:35
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-08-18 07:42:41
(TechDirt is a good site nonetheless)
Jose_X
2011-08-18 20:52:56
I still think "Boycottnovell" ..am not used to the new name.. I have also cut back on how frequently I read up on Linux/FOSS and usually save the reading for a marathon session.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-08-18 21:11:08