Assuming the average person has 50K in the bank or available to them, to equal the generous contribution of the "Gates" Foundation would be like giving $10.00, or roughly .0002% of 15 billion (which is an old Gates net worth figure). Yeah how incredibly generous - right!

With all these millions pouring in, some companies must be making a *lot* of money right now. It's funny that ordinary people are asked to give, but those organisations with the necessary goods won't part with them unless they get this money.

Let's see how much Lartry Ellison gives, and scott mcnealy

Bill gates is way way ahead of them on this kind of issue...

How fitting if at last the tech world started redistributing the wealth it has garnered over the past few decades...once this tsunami damage is dealt with, however many years that takesm perhaps we as a community can move on to other intractable problems that need $$$$ - landmines, for example. Dysentry. Poverty. Come on, let's make this the Turning Point.