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Steve Jobs Ranked 43rd on Forbes 400 List of Richest Americans

Dem Bones

All that money and he still can't buy a dinosaur.

(Hat tip to Homer Simpson)
 
wow, no one person needs billions of $.. government should take their money and spread it.. wtf would someone do with $50 billion???
 
MattInOz said:
Not to knock the brilliant work they do...
You Do realise that the "Gates Foundation" was established by Bill Gates 1, and added to by 2 and 3. The fund is so massive that the $35B you speak of is mostly interest on the fund.
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Version three is always the good one with MSFT
 
SolRayz said:
Seeing Bill Gates off the charts makes me want to throw up. I think about him and what I'd like to do to him everyday at work in front of my windows xp sheitbox. I swear my work productivity is seriously hampered by this crap operating system.:mad:

Oh and good for SJ as he deserves every cent. :p
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Nobody, and I mean nobody... DESERVES 5.1 billion dollars. Nobody deserves that period, ever. It's called excess.
 
JangoFett124 said:
Bill Gates is 100 times a better person that Steve Jobs. His charity work is immense and Steve Jobs has done little of value in comparison.
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A tax haven foundation, and no doubt there are more "pragmatic" reasons than just charity. Like others said, Microsoft's history is REPLETE with predatory incidents. Why would Mr. Gates change now?
 
cloudblood84 said:
i love the fanboys and their defensiveness. too bad SJ, BG, or anyone else on this list for that matter doesn't give a sh1+ about ANY of us.
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And yet some people think BG is some sort of philanthropic saint, if he doesn't care about people? (Didn't he just apply for a patent on technology that might calm down hurricane conditions? Yup, it's about humanity and NOTHING to do with waiting for someone to do the real work and then scream "I own the patent, give me the money! Me me me me me!!!")
 
thermodynamic said:
A tax haven foundation, and no doubt there are more "pragmatic" reasons than just charity. Like others said, Microsoft's history is REPLETE with predatory incidents. Why would Mr. Gates change now?
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it really doesn't matter his 'reasoning' for doing it.

his money is helping ALOT as far as disease prevention in Africa, etc.

If they are providing mosquito nets, cheap HIV medication, and saving/prolonging people's lives it doesn't matter.
 
you can be a fanboy all you want, but if the tables were turned and it were SJ, you'd defend him till the end of the world. you people are idiots.
 
rgarjr said:
SJ will soon surpass Gates..
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How do you figure? I love SJ and all, but over the next 10 years

if Steve Jobs gets an *annual* return ( nigh impossible ) on his entire net worth of 25% he still would only have $47B.

If Bill gates only got 2% annual return he would end up with $60B in the same period.

/compound interest is a b*tch.
 
Buzz Bumble said:
Bill Gates is a nothing and never was. He and Microsoft have never actually designed or written a piece of software themselves. Even back in the original days they bought DOS from someone else, and have continued to buy out or steal software from other companies to this day. They sole claim to fame is being in the right place at the right time ... and we're still suffering the consequences of those bad decisions by managers who didn't have a clue. :(
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I Vote your post as 'Best Post Of The Day'...

Yeah, and I think that DOS was called 'CP/M' just prior to its "purchase"...

Google the details. Horrible. Gary Kildall.

Sometimes this very fact makes me lean toward Apple products (or away from Microsoft) more then anything else with regard to my home computing environment. I'm hardly a fanboy.

Makes me want to spit tacks.
 
I have a hard time imagining banking a million dollars let alone 50 BILLION!?! I mean.. donate 49 and keep 1 one for yourself man, you will be more than happy! :D (I will be awaiting a check in the mail)

PS. People who say SJ 'deserves' billions of dollars or that you 'love him' scare me more than than the thought of these people controlling enough cash to pay unemployment for most Americans who lost jobs this year!
 
Really.. Gates and Jobs are both screwed businessmen with a killer instinct holding no remorse for anyone who gets caught in their wake. The happy "One more thing" Jobs isn't the same guy who runs that company.
 
Mintin8 said:
I think you guys have to think about all the money gates has put into charity. I'm talking about lots of money here.

When do you hear about Steve Jobs participating in charity work etc.
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Both Gates and Buffet have taken advantage of tax rules to form Foundations to which they contribute money and deduct from tax liability. It is a tax dodge first and foremost, and charity second.

If you are a libertarian, you are in favor of the richest billionaires dodging a 40% tax hit on the already thrice taxed cash. If you are a bleeding heart liberal you feel the rich are getting richer on the backs of the poor, so tax them hard. If you are a politically connected democrat like Gates and Buffet, you get the tax break without getting your balls busted on TV.

Good for them.

I hope what they do with their foundations are effective.

Rocketman
 
RebootD said:
Really.. Gates and Jobs are both screwed businessmen with a killer instinct holding no remorse for anyone who gets caught in their wake. The happy "One more thing" Jobs isn't the same guy who runs that company.
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What I was referring to was the fact that some people are trying to put Gate's charity work in such a bad light. Despicable.

And of course they are taking advantage of every tax rule they can. Nothing wrong, or illegal, with that whatsoever.

On this forum, he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
 
MegaSignal said:
I Vote your post as 'Best Post Of The Day'...

Yeah, and I think that DOS was called 'CP/M' just prior to its "purchase"...

Google the details. Horrible. Gary Kildall

Sometimes this very fact makes me lean toward Apple products (or away from Microsoft) more then anything else. I'm hardly a fanboy.

Makes me want to spit tacks.
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Couldn't agree more.

Gary Kildall got royally screwed as a result of these underhanded and unscrupulous acts of sleazery - and so the predatory ball got rolling in Redmond.
 
LanPhantom said:
50 billion huh? And yet his company still continues to turn out some of the crappiest software available. M$ is the McDonalds of the computer world, with one exception, their stuff ain't that cheap.

LanPhantom
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Yeah imagine McDonalds charging the same price what Microsoft is charging. $200 for a meal plus $500 to supersize to Ultimate. :D
 
I think the mistake here is somehow equating net worth with success and influence.

Jobs and Gates are businessmen; their respective companies, operating systems, and net worth are what they are due to myriad circumstances; neither OS is going anywhere real soon, and their respective companies will strive on long afterwards.

However, it wouldn't surprise me, 30 or 40 years from now, (30,000 or 40,000 'computer years') that Steve Jobs will be featured prominently in many history books under the headings of 'Innovation' and 'User Interface'.
 
Buzz Bumble said:
Bill Gates is a nothing and never was. He and Microsoft have never actually designed or written a piece of software themselves. Even back in the original days they bought DOS from someone else, and have continued to buy out or steal software from other companies to this day. They sole claim to fame is being in the right place at the right time ... and we're still suffering the consequences of those bad decisions by managers who didn't have a clue. :(
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You make it sound like Bill Gates was walking down the street one day an a ginormous $1 Billion Dollar Bill dropped on his head. C'mon let's be fair. I don't like Windows for the same reason most Mac users don't but lets give credit where it's due. Love him or hate him, Bill Gates turning Microsoft into the Goliath it is was not due to luck.

And before we throw stones lets not forget how Apple (SJ) "stole" the whole GUI and mouse concept from Xerox PARC. Oh, and the guys Gates "stole" DOS from was IBM. Yeah, I know, Bill shouldn't have picked on someone bigger than him.
 
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