FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Fri Nov 15 09:08:31 EST 2002


At 3:20 PM -0600 02/11/14, RWare at INTERPLASTIC.com wrote:
>How much has the open source community donated in dollars? 

In percentage of earnings from licensing opensource software, greater than Microsoft.

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Kim Holburn [SMTP:kim.holburn at anu.edu.au]
>> Sent:	Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:02 PM
>> To:	Richard Cottrill; CLUG List
>> Subject:	Re: FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed
>>
>> You might like to look at this article on that subject:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28063.html
>> Gates gives $100m to fight HIV, $421m to fight Linux
>>
>> At 1:26 PM +0000 2002/11/14, Richard Cottrill wrote:
>> >"Bill Gates' donation of $100 million dollars to India wouldn't have
>> anything to do with the Indian government's good idea to take up
>> open-source software would it?  Surely not.  Surely Bill Gates would never
>> cheapen his philanthropic work by attaching conditions that benefited his
> > business interests!


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