The Boston Globe, June 26th, 1997
Good for Bill Gates. His pledge to give away $400 million so the neediest libraries in the United States and Canada can become active citizens in the information age shows he is a man of humanitarian vision as well as business smarts. The 41-year-old techno-guru who founded Microsoft Corp. and is considered the richest person in the United States has, with his wife, Melinda French, set up the Gates Library Foundation. It plans to give away $200 million to help between 8,000 and 10,000 libraries purchase computers over the next three to five years, with Microsoft matching those grants by provid...
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