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

[Erick Andrews]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:19:56 -0800 (PST), Doug Masson wrote:

>
>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 thought it was more like getting paid by somebody to take away your
garbage.

-- 
Erick Andrews