Of course, giving away gazillions isn't the only way to have an impact in philanthropy.
Mr. Brill characteristically denounces newspaper publishers—his potential customers—as wimps for giving away their content until now.
So applaud Mr Gates's decision to make giving away money his day job and to work at Microsoft part time (see article).
Well, ironically, he's a proponent of giving away content for free as a business model – and for years he's been telling the music industry to adapt to it.
By contrast, the Carnegie Corporation explicitly set out to create a better world by giving away what remained of the great fortune of its industrialist founder, Andrew Carnegie.
