Bill Gates and Wife Getting A Divorce

I don't understand why the fact that this couple is getting divorced should be of any interest to anybody outside of themselves and their family.

As far as I know, they have lived a very private (as much as possible) and exemplary life, donating millions to worthy causes, especially the effort to eliminate malaria from the world. They are both brilliant professionals, and treating her like some Hollywood bimbo who just wants to walk off with all his money, unless he has a rock-solid prenup, is tabloid garbage. She is probably as much of a billionaire as he is; how many billions could one person need?

For once, I agree with Gaer. It's really none of our business.
 

Sunny said:
I don't understand why the fact that this couple is getting divorced should be of any interest to anybody outside of themselves and their family.

As far as I know, they have lived a very private (as much as possible) and exemplary life, donating millions to worthy causes, especially the effort to eliminate malaria from the world. They are both brilliant professionals, and treating her like some Hollywood bimbo who just wants to walk off with all his money, unless he has a rock-solid prenup, is tabloid garbage. She is probably as much of a billionaire as he is; how many billions could one person need?

For once, I agree with Gaer. It's really none of our business.
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In general, I agree with you; however, sometimes there are valuable lessons that can be learned.
 

It is true that some people simply drift apart after lengthy marriages. Some decide to split whiles some stay together. Take away the money here but maintain the lives the two lead. How many social and business contacts do each experience daily? My family and friends (blue collar) throughout my life have had only moderate social lives and those were mostly local and neighborhood activities. I have not heard much of any negative talk about either person especially Bill Gates.
 
JimBob1952 said:
After Gates helped create the personal computer industry, they have both essentially devoted their lives to helping people. Not sure what "karma" has to do with it.
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My nephew is married to a Microsoft executive and while sitting next to her at my niece's wedding years ago I was yapping about him when she told of exactly that and I gained a new perspective.
 
Sunny said:
I don't understand why the fact that this couple is getting divorced should be of any interest to anybody outside of themselves and their family.

As far as I know, they have lived a very private (as much as possible) and exemplary life, donating millions to worthy causes, especially the effort to eliminate malaria from the world. They are both brilliant professionals, and treating her like some Hollywood bimbo who just wants to walk off with all his money, unless he has a rock-solid prenup, is tabloid garbage. She is probably as much of a billionaire as he is; how many billions could one person need?

For once, I agree with Gaer. It's really none of our business.
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Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. 😲
 
JonDouglas said:
Actually, it most more Apple and IBM who created the personal computer industry. Gates happened to be in the right place and the right time to sell a simple operating system that I believe he bought, called DOS, to IBM. Microsoft later capatilized on the need for base applications (word, excel, etc.)and created the operating system monolith it is today. As Microsoft got big and fatt, Apple forged ahead with ever-smaller computers that are the standard iThings of today.
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Microsoft is flourishing, Apple is flourishing, everybody is happy. I own stock in both companies and I'm particularly happy. I will say I prefer working on a Windows-based PC to an Apple PC, but that may just be what I'm used to.

Of course, Jobs screwed Wozniak and "stole" the GUI and the mouse from Xerox PARC, or so the story goes.

Another way of looking at it is that everybody in tech builds on the achievements of those who come before them.

Whatever the case, Mr. and Mrs. Gates spend their time and money trying to help the world. I respect them for that.
 
JimBob1952 said:
Microsoft is flourishing, Apple is flourishing, everybody is happy. I own stock in both companies and I'm particularly happy. I will say I prefer working on a Windows-based PC to an Apple PC, but that may just be what I'm used to.

Of course, Jobs screwed Wozniak and "stole" the GUI and the mouse from Xerox PARC, or so the story goes.

Another way of looking at it is that everybody in tech builds on the achievements of those who come before them.

Whatever the case, Mr. and Mrs. Gates spend their time and money trying to help the world. I respect them for that.
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Having had and used both, I prefer MS for desktop PCs and Apple for portable iThings That said, my interest in Mr. and Mrs. Gates had more to do with their joint influence on the CDC, whose actions do affect us from time to time. .
 
JonDouglas said:
Having had and used both, I prefer MS for desktop PCs and Apple for portable iThings That said, my interest in Mr. and Mrs. Gates had more to do with their joint influence on the CDC, whose actions do affect us from time to time. .
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JonDouglas, your post raised a perfectly valid point. I worry about institutions like the Ford Foundation having undue influence over the recipients of the funds they distribute. Many big foundations have taken the money bequeathed by their conservative founders and put in the service of far-left causes.
 
JimBob1952 said:
JonDouglas, your post raised a perfectly valid point. I worry about institutions like the Ford Foundation having undue influence over the recipients of the funds they distribute. Many big foundations have taken the money bequeathed by their conservative founders and put in the service of far-left causes.
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I wasn't thinking so much right or left as I was who was influencing what in an organization that's supposed to exist to protect our health.,
 
When Gates got hitched, I was working in an office with a lot of women. I had great fun stirring the ladies up by saying that his marriage proved that a smart man could do a stupid thing. Guess I was right, it just took longer to prove my prediction than I anticipated.:D
 
fuzzybuddy said:
A couple's divorce is not a subject for rumor, and gossip. And while it may be traumatizing to the couple, it doesn't affect me in the least. I could care less. And neither of them will be on the street, living in a tent. So who cares?
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I'll tell you why I care. I admire and respect them both. I thought they had a happy marriage, and I'm sorry to hear it is over. The larger question is, if all the money in the world and a shared commitment to good works can't keep you together, what can?
 
Today, the husband-and-wife duo co-run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which works on global health and development issues like eradicating polio, improving sanitation systems in impoverished countries and developing clean, affordable energy.

Their foundation is among the world’s richest, having provided more than US$54 billion in grants over two decades in areas including malaria and infectious disease control, agricultural research, basic health care and sanitation, in various parts of the world.

They do not have a prenup ... that's how much Bill thinks of his wife.
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Dana said:
Today, the husband-and-wife duo co-run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which works on global health and development issues like eradicating polio, improving sanitation systems in impoverished countries and developing clean, affordable energy.

Their foundation is among the world’s richest, having provided more than US$54 billion in grants over two decades in areas including malaria and infectious disease control, agricultural research, basic health care and sanitation, in various parts of the world.

They do not have a prenup ... that's how much Bill thinks of his wife.
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Right. Now let's sit back and see just how much his wife thinks of him.
 

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