[Am-info] Microsoft 'donations'

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:42:14AM -0500, Joe Barr wrote:
> There was a story recently, I think on ZDNet, which broke it down
> roughly like this: 35 million in cash and 100 million plus in software.

Thanks for that.

It kind of reminds me of drug pushers giving free samples of crack to 
kids...
 
> I'll try to remember where I saw that.

That would be useful... It would be nice to back up my allegations with a 
definitive source. 

> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 05:31, John Poltorak wrote:
> > It is often reported how much Bill Gates or Microsoft give away in 
> > charitable donations.
> > 
> > Is there any way to evaluate how much of these donations are simply the 
> > market value of some Microsoft software?
> > 
> > I'm sure if Microsoft give away 100 licences for MS Office, some newspaper 
> > hack is sure to report a generous donation of $50,000 by Microsoft.
> > 
> > -- 
> > John


-- 
John