{"id":6502,"date":"2008-02-17T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/creative-capitalism-from-bill-gates-and-co.html"},"modified":"2008-02-17T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T12:26:29","slug":"creative-capitalism-from-bill-gates-and-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/creative-capitalism-from-bill-gates-and-co.html","title":{"rendered":"Creative Capitalism from Bill Gates and Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/bill-gates.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft recently made a smart move by partnering with Russian mobile phone operator MTS to provide customers with a bundled PC, software and wireless broadband for a monthly fee. This allows consumers with less money to have access to the relatively latest and greatest in computing.<\/p>\n<p>This agreement follows similar ones in other countries and is a natural way to compete with Linux while complying with the concept of creative capitalism that Bill Gates has said is a great way to help the poor while serving the interests of capitalistic companies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/pcworld\/20080217\/tc_pcworld\/142565\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft recently made a smart move by partnering with Russian mobile phone operator MTS to provide customers with a bundled PC, software and wireless broadband for a monthly fee. This allows consumers with less money to have access to the relatively latest and greatest in computing. This agreement follows similar ones in other countries and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}