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		mayanksinghal on Nov 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia I am not so sure about that. MS has had significant contributions in research that is not directly relevant to Microsoft's current revenue streams - but I haven't heard if Gates was directly involved in any of them. Brin, on the other hand, appears to be spearheading that stream of research and development.

gxs on Nov 18, 2011 [–]

Brin and Page have compared themselves to gates and have mentioned they'd like to follow his example as far as philanthropy goes.

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