Vietnam gives Gates star welcome

Vietnam gives Gates star welcome:

"Bill Gates has been greeted like a pop star by thousands of university students during a visit to Vietnam.

About 7,000 students waited for hours, some clinging to trees and balconies, to get a glimpse of Mr Gates during his visit to the Hanoi university."

Many of us would not consider Bill Gates our idol. Some might envy him his riches. Others might consider his game of hardball too hard. Everyone has an opinion about Bill Gates and his Microsoft empire. He has brought computing to the masses and he is currently ploughing some of his wealth into projects for underdeveloped countries. He is no fool, that much is certain and so why shouldn't you, like Vietnam, look to him as an inspiration? The bottom line on this one is that as an invited guest to Vietnam, who is obviously there to do business, he has been honoured as a guest, welcomed as a guest and treated as someone who has achieved the unthinkable in his lifetime. At 50 he has made himself the world's richest man, one of the most powerful men on the planet and someone who has brought something world changing to all of us. He hasn't done it alone. He is now trying to conquer some of the world's poverty issues, so the rest of his life will witness whether his power was for the greater good or not. At 50, he has been welcomed as a hero and as his hosts they are making him feel the level of his importance. He did not ask for this.