[LINK] Fwd: MS $65K back flip over charity, but not for PCs for Kids

From: Eric Scheid (eric.scheid@ironclad.net.au)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 12:05:48 EST


From: Mailing_Service@idg.com.au <Mailing_Service@idg.com.au> (1/8/01
10:46 AM)
>Re: ARN Daily - Wednesday, 1 August, 2001

>Two weeks after it copped a media flogging over its attempt to bring legal
>action against a Victorian-based charity for software piracy, Microsoft
>has revealed it will donate $65,000 worth of software and PCs to local
>community organisations. But a furious PC for Kids co-founder Theresa
>Bayes has labeled the move as a gross publicity stunt too late to benefit
>the PC for Kids charity ? which is now facing closure.
>
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