[Am-info] The cost of Microsoft's school charity settlement

[Doug Masson]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Joe Moore wrote:

> $375 million, after taxes.  According to another MSFT press release,
> last year Microsoft donated $215 million in cash and software.  So that's
> only $160 million for being a predatory monopoly.
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/msft/news/11-20ClassActionCharge.htm
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And the numbers are all bullshit anyway. The marginal cost of that
software is just about nothing. Not to mention it helps extend the
monopoly. I *really* like Red Hat's offer to provide the
software for free if Microsoft is required to spend the settlement money
on donating hardware to schools.