Da'Punk-A wrote: > Karen Hill wrote: > > That is how the major news networks and PBS covered Bill Gates' > > annoucement of his upcoming retirement. > > > > Dr. Bill Gates has two honorary PhDs, one from the prestigious > > Linkoping University of Sweden. > > Yes, two /honorary/ PhDs. What about real academic qualifications? > Whoops, he's a college drop-out. An extremely wealthy college > drop-out, of course. And if wealth is how you measure success, then > you'd call him a successful drop-out. >
Honorary PhDs are real degrees. In fact in academic circles, an honorary PhD is thought of very highly because to earn one a person has to accomplish a great deal in life rather than just sit through 7 years of school like other doctors. > Is it correct to call him "Doctor" Gates when his PhDs are pretend? > Once again, his PhDs are not pretend. They are legitimate degrees. Bill Gates has an Erdos number of 4 thanks to his published mathematical paper with Christos H. Papadimitriou BTW. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
