"Saul Luizaga" <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
news:47b095d1@news.povray.org...
> somebody wrote:

> > Every large company has some sort of a "do good/feel good" program, it's
a
> > marketing necessity nowadays, not out of "philanthropy/philosophy for
> > service for the humanity" (!?).

> It is, maybe not 100% altruistic but it is, and that si the important
thing.

Let me rephrase it: Yahoo is no more or no less altruistic than any other
company of that scale.

>>   And don't forget Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
> >
> > Knee jerk reaction is to root for the ""underdog"" and disparage the
> > "overdog", but MS is probably more "greener" than Yahoo, and if your
motive
> > is truly philantrophy and not simply being anti-MS, it makes more sens
to
> > root for Bill: More of each $1000 you put in Bill's pocket will go to
good
> > causes than from $100 you put into pockets of 10 different people.

> LOL, yeah right dude...

That's not an argument. Mine follows straightforward from the law of
diminishing returns.

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