Altruism or...

["mike paciello" <mpaciello@paciellogroup.com>]

Now...if ODF could come up with $50 million.. 


MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM MICROSOFT Microsoft has
announced a donation of as much as $30 million in software to high school
and college students in Massachusetts. The software package will include
software-writing and Web-development tools and is valued at about $800 per
high school student and $2,400 per college student. The software will be
offered to all public high schools and colleges in the state; the total
amount of the donation will depend on how many of the state's students
participate in the program. Massachusetts has about 300,000 high school and
125,000 college students. Nate Mackinnon, a spokesman for the Massachusetts
Department of Education, said the donation could help minimize a growing gap
in science between U.S. and international students by seeding an interest in
technology in high school and being able to foster those skills in college.
Associated Press, 13 June 2006
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