On 12/28/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/12/06, Jeroenvrp wikipedia@xs4all.nl wrote:
Their €250.000 is nothing compared to that. Virgin Unite is just a PR-department. Almost every multi-national has these kind off charity organisations. What if the Gates Foundation will offer these kind of money? A lot of us will see that it is just a PR-stunt from Microsoft.
You know, we are perfectly capable of saying "no, that's a PR stunt, we're not interested in helping you, go away". For all I know, we've turned them down already; Danny is very insistent at ensuring we don't become puppets for something like this. We make these things on our terms. It may not be the best of terms, but we set them. We're not stupid, and we have no intention of becoming shills.
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.
Anthony