Written Testimony of
William H. Gates
Chairman, Microsoft Corporation
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
I believe this country stands at a crossroads. For decades, innovation has been the engine of prosperity in this country. Now, economic progress depends more than ever on innovation. And the potential for technology innovation to improve lives has never been greater.
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
ScienceDebate2008 anyone?
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Get Bill Gates to endorse Science Debate 2008 nad see if any of the candiatdes ignore. he'd be one of the few people none of them would want to Pi#@ off.
Or to translate...
1) Let Bill Gates go through with his Microsoft High School pilot projects.
2) Continue to replace the existing American IT workforce with a cheaper immigrant work force, and then when they get all kooshy replace them with even cheaper immigrants.
3) Give the charity arm of Microsoft more money.
4) More software patents and a thick glass cealing for open source software.
I know, pessimistic. But I just can't trust Billy Gates. I've tried, and every time he's shown what a weasel he is.
Most of what Troy said. Usually when software barons talk about "providing more incentives for private R&D", they aren't talking about government grants or rewards for specific, cutting edge technologies that would otherwise be a prohibitively high risk for the private sector. Instead, they mean patent extensions and will allow them to amass ginormous portfolios with which they can greenmail open source projects and smaller competitors.
HELLO. Is anyone in the science communication world listening to what Bill Gates is saying here? "It's the innovation, stupid."