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Well, I am not to convince anyone. But let’s also see that everybody including the decision makers at Oxford are adults. Let’s not take away agency from them. Whether on advice of Bill Gates or somebody else, the decision they took is theirs and they are responsible for it, not Bill Gates.
well, considering the amounts of money involved, and the way gates has historically conducted business, abusing monopolies to gain other monopolies through coercion and corruption, it wouldn't surprise me if the decisions were motivated by more than just persuasive speech
@lxo
Every commercial for-profit company aims to become a monopoly and use this position to extract profit. Just the vast majority cannot achieve that status globally - but that does not make their CEOs innocent anyhow. Bill Gates is not unusual in this.
I don't see that I excluded CEOs, I only meant that Gates, known to have been involved in this deal, has a history of abusing monopolies for profit. unusual or not, he's shown he knows how to use them, and that he's willing to use them
@FailForward @jwildeboer @silmathoron @tetrapyloctomist
Indeed you ask for advice, take each weigh that up, look at evidence, and then make a decision surely.
