On 12/30/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 12/28/06, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 28/12/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
FWIW, I would see a donation from the Gates
Foundation to be less of a
PR stunt than a donation from Virgin Unite. The Gates Foundation has
pretty much nothing to do with Microsoft other than having the same
founder.
And that they tend to donate, uh, Windows licenses.
They do? {{citation_needed}}
There is a certain logic to it. It's a very inexpensive donation for
them. Think of the optics of having a Bill and Melinda Gates sponsored
site being powered by Linux. :-)
It would make a lot more sense for Microsoft to donate the Windows
licenses directly, which I assume is what actually happens. If the
Gates Foundation donated the licenses, how would they obtain them?
Buy them from Microsoft? That would involve a huge and insanely
illegal conflict of interest transaction.
No, I'm fairly certain that the Gates Foundation *doesn't* donate
Windows licenses. And the fact that I haven't gotten that citation I
requested makes me think David Gerard just made that assertion up.
Anthony