Ex-Microsoft Developer Leaves $65 Million to Benefit Same-Sex and AIDS Organizations

Ric Weiland, who was a high school classmate of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, committed suicide in 2006 at age 53.

Details have recently been released regarding his estate.  According to AP, Ex-Microsoft worker leaves $65 mil to gay rights, AIDS groups, CNN.com, Feb. 24, 2008:

[T]he Pride Foundation said Weiland’s estate had established a fund at the foundation that would give $46 million over the next eight years to 10 national gay rights and HIV/AIDS groups, including Lambda Legal; the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays; the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; and amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.

His estate also bequeathed $19 million directly to the Pride Foundation for scholarships and grants supporting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in the Pacific Northwest.