On 12/30/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Anthony wrote:
On 12/28/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/12/06, Anthony wikilegal@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