Re: [office-accessibility] Altruism or...

[Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>]

Hi Mike,
> Now...if ODF could come up with $50 million.. 
>   

Oh, you mean like: 
http://www.betanews.com/article/Sun_Donates_StarOffice_to_NonProfits/1118687222 
and http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS8090756097.html and 
http://www.giftsinkind.org/news/releases/news_2005_p2pnet_june13.asp and 
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-05/sunflash.20040506.1.xml 
and 
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-08/sunflash.20020828.1.xml 
and http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-09/sunflash.20020917.1.xml ??

I think with the last one we value the donation at $6 billion...


Peter
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> 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
> http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=
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> <http://www.educause.edu/email/edupage/ep061406/track.asp?id=story_1> 
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