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Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Dec 30 22:33:28 UTC 2006


Anthony wrote:

>On 12/28/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 28/12/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>
>>And that they tend to donate, uh, Windows licenses.
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>>
>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. :-)

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