The image shows a couple of guys using Ubuntu

Jan 30, 2015 08:13 GMT  ·  By

Bill Gates is much more involved in philanthropy than Microsoft these days and he's done some great work regarding the eradications of certain diseases and to improve the quality of life in a number of third world countries. He's also inadvertently promoted Ubuntu, which is a Linux system.

The Internet is abuzz today after Bill Gates published an image on his Facebook page and a link towards his website with the text "15 years from now, most people in poor countries will be able to take classes online." It's a sound goal and it's perfectly doable, but in the image posted on Facebook the operating system is Ubuntu.

As a former Microsoft CEO and the founder of what we call today Windows, you might think that he would pay a little more attention towards his message, but this particular detail has slipped past the radar of the ones posting on Facebook, unless he did that himself, which would be even funnier.

Bill Gates is doing some great work

After he resigned as the CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates has dedicated his life to help others and he set up a foundation that invests money into all sorts of interesting projects that include the eradication of polio, malaria, and a few other diseases affecting poor countries.

It's also quite obvious that it would be a hard sell for Microsoft to implement Windows in such zones, where people have a hard time knowing what they are going to eat the very next day. In this case Ubuntu would be a much better choice and a logical one. It's free and can run on much older computers than Windows.

If we take this into consideration as well, maybe the image was not chosen randomly and the post on Bill Gates' Facebook might not be really out of place.