Does "Micro$oft" sucks...?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Guy Fraser wrote:
> Travis Riddle wrote:
> 
>> Whoops that's not per year, that's since the inception of the 
>> program.  Sorry, my bad, 7 Billion since 1994.  I guess they do suck.
>>
> Like RP said... 7 Billion in charity is a good thing.
> 
> I'm sure that if I had made 70 Billion in the last 10 years I would have
> donated at least 7 Billion too.

Also, don't forget that at least a portion of their charity is often 
donated in the form of MS software, rather than cash, so it doesn't 
neccessarily even cost MS as much as it's worth on paper. Arguably, 
since some of these donations are just licenses and not even media (see 
the third example) it costs them practically nothing or even ends up 
making them money when the beneficiaries then later purchase 
complimentary MS software.

Examples:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Jan00/DonationPR.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Feb00/EncartaWApr.asp
http://www.unbf.ca/its/faculty/software/msdistribution.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27878.html