Charles Elson

It's not I'm working to give all this money to charity.

It's usually I'm working to give it to me who earned it.

He will argue.

So I think it's rather interesting to see him now on the side of the charitable giving nonprofit.

I think that's kind of interesting.

But I think you've got to look at this as kind of a battle between two egos, if you will, or one very large ego, certainly.

And I don't wanna say grudge match, but someone has taken this idea, run with it and done very well.

The other likes the idea too and is running with it as well.

Suddenly you have two individuals who are in the same business effectively competing with each other.

And oftentimes litigation is used as a tool one way or the other to slow down the competitor or the competitor to slow you down.

And this has sort of all the marks of something like that, I guess you could argue.

Or it's just something rather personal between the two.

But as a championing a charity, it doesn't feel like that from my standpoint.

Because remember, Microsoft invested quite a bit in this.

And this debate did not occur at the time that Microsoft made the investment.

You think about it, Microsoft is a for-profit company.

They didn't give this who their charitable arm.

It was an investment for them.

And I guess you have to ask yourself, well, why wasn't this point raised then?

Why is it being raised now?