Err... they want to knight Bill Gates !

[Admiral]

Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and the world's wealthiest man, is to receive an honorary knighthood for "services to global enterprise".

The recommendation that he receive the honour was made by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown. Buckingham Palace is expected to announce it tomorrow, when Mr Gates will speak at a conference on "Advancing Enterprise" organised by Mr Brown.

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[KvHagedorn]

How disgusting.

[TransformX]

[Brian Ellis]

he is already benighted

[RedRed]

Exactly, Brian

He joined the ranks of the baelzebub, and long ago became Knight Commander there!

[dbdg]

Cool, well done Bill.

[az]

Well, if half the actors of this world really deserve to be knighted, he does, too, IMHO. But it's a little sad to see there's no distinction between him and people like Tim Berners-Lee (apart from the fact that he cannot gain the "Sir" prefix, not coming from a commonwealth state).

AZ

[Jammrock]

Money can buy popularity, but money can't buy you knighthood ... oh wait, it can.

Jammrock

[gt40]

You can knight him 'The Black Knight'.

[TransformX]

You mean "BlackAdder"

[gt40]

No, I mean this one:

[Wulfman]

not many people donate 1 billion "just like that" for foreign aid.

now if they would just announce how much of that is cash & how much software...

mfg
wulfman

[Byock]

Bah, disgusting. As if the title "Sir" wasn't getting degraded enough.

[MultimediaMan]

It is an honorary title, kids.

Not bad for a college dropout, though....

[Tempest]

Bravely bold Sir William / rode forth from Microsoft...