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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by ekianjo on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:09AM (#16947703)
> nominated for a Nobel Prize.

After forcing OEMs to install Windows for decades, yeah he does deserve a kind of prize but I am not thinking about the same one. Your present does not redeem your past actions.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by nerdponx on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:15AM (#16947722)
Perhaps, but I'm not sure we should punish good behavior like this. He is doing it, his peers are not.
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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by kolbe on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:12AM (#16948020)
Is not getting a Nobel a 'punishment'?
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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by maxerickson on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:17AM (#16947730)
Larry Page's family foundation is participating in this grant program.
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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by wycs on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:16AM (#16947726)
What can redeem your past actions then?
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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by mercer on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:36AM (#16947818)
A proper apology would be meaningful. I don't have strong feelings about whether what he's doing 'offsets' what he's done, but going on the record and apologizing would go a long way to get me off that particular fence.
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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by mathgeek on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:26AM (#16947772)
I'd guess the proposition here is "you can wipe away your past good with evil, but you can't wipe away your past evil with good."

Sounds a bit too "never forgive, and never forget" for me.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by zeristor on Saturday April 28, 2018 @11:07AM (#16947980)
A time machine, I would imagine.
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