Microsoft's Software Philanthropy: The Goodwill Ploy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 26, 2003 @11:50AM from the first-one's-free dept.

bethanie writes "The New York Times has printed a story concerning Microsoft's plans to 'significantly increase its donation of software to the nation's nonprofit organizations, to a level that may approach $1 billion annually in the next three to four years. ...But the increase has also drawn objections from developers of 'open source' programs (programs for which the source code is freely distributed). Those critics say they believe Microsoft is using a giveaway strategy to undercut the so-called free software movement in the potentially promising nonprofit market.' What do you think? Is it true philanthropy or just another tactic to assimilate everyone into the MS collective?"

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Re:In other words.... by coloth · 2003-05-26 13:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

HAHA! Well, the story was posted by a (relatively) non-techie slashdot newbie friend of mine, and I am just sitting here laughing.

After a few days on Slashdot she knew exactly how to get a story on the board!

Good goin' B!

Way to work the system!

LOL

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