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14 Nov 2024 20:26:04 EST (-0500)
  Re: Micrsoft trying to buy Yahoo!  
From: Saul Luizaga
Date: 11 Feb 2008 13:37:05
Message: <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.

  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...


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