TED, and PBS, have chosen Bill Gates as their lead speaker in the premiere of the video broadcast version of the iconic Technology, Education, and Design lecture series.
Having Bill Gates talk about education is like having Ted Bundy talk about women's rights, the prognosticators only revealing the core of their evil. Education for Bill Gates is like his company, not meant to empower creative individuals but to build monoliths of bureaucratic automatons.
Curiously, the evidence to both of these malicious individuals arises from the same educational institution, the University of Washington, most notably its School of Law - where the politico Bundy was given free reign and the local lobbyist/bond underwriter firm of Gates Sr made, tellingly, one of its first pre-Foundation forays into 'public relations'. That's a subject I've written on, a story also picked up by the more mainstream Rick Anderson, in the Seattle Weekly.
http://www.motleytools.com/blog/1997/02/leveraging_the_law_through_the.html
In general the Microsoft Corporation has engaged in employment practices that make second class citizens of many, many individuals - illegal corporate immigrants, if you will. This can be seen from the beginning in the 1990's class action 'perma-temp' lawsuits against both Microsoft and the local County Government.
http://www.bs-s.com/cases/c-microsoft-vizcaino.html
http://www.bs-s.com/cases/c-kingcounty-clark.html
Most recently, Chief Counsel Brad Smith - emerging as the visible civic leader for the Corporation on a number of topics - has generated press in his support for the single employer H1-B visa program - while, curiously doing so very little to actually support the training of IT engineers at local educational institutions.
The fact is the company was not built by smart people, it was build by Lawyers stealing smart people away from other companies - just like they now want to steal away America from its owners for the benefit of their Enterprise level corporate 'clients'.
The details, and FAILINGS of this 'legal' management style can be seen in a number of ways - here's one I've written up based on the comments of one Jack Abramoff - himself known for a bit of untoward influence on higher education:
http://www.motleytools.com/blog/2012/09/microsoft_and_the_law_firm_pre.html
