FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed

[Kim Holburn]

At 4:29 PM -0600 02/11/14, RWare at INTERPLASTIC.com wrote:
>How did you calculate that?

Dodgely(sp?) and slackly,
OS earnings from licensing software = $0,
                        total donated $0 = 100%

MS earnings from licensing software = $billions,
                        total donated $millions = 0.1%



>Don't worry about MS trying to peddle influence.  It won't work.  People
>pick based on utility.  They pay what they think something is worth.  If MS
>prices themselves out of the market people will find alternatives.  If MS is
>too high Linux wins.  If you think that if people are exposed to MS first
>they will never switch, then you don't have much faith in how good Linux is.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Kim Holburn [SMTP:kim.holburn at anu.edu.au]
>> Sent:	Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:09 PM
>> To:	RWare at INTERPLASTIC.com; linux at lists.samba.org
>> Subject:	RE: FW: 100% of yesterday's second sealed
>>
>> 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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