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Tragedy

by Mike Masnick

Fri, Sep 14th 2001 3:10pm





More On Technology Company Donations

from the interesting... dept

While I don't fault any one or any company for donating anything to help with the tragedy, I do find it interesting that an American company like Microsoft can offer to donate $5 million in cash and $5 million in software/services, while a Taiwanese tech company can offer to donate $100 million. To be honest, I don't care about the dollar amounts from any of these firms. The proper response would be "we will do anything we can do to help". Update: The article has now changed the amount to read $1 million instead of $100 million. I wonder if it was just a typo or if the reporter misunderstood the Via offer.

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    clous, Sep 14th, 2001 @ 4:24pm

    Its clear now that Microsoft is being chincy. But who are these guys?

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    clous, Sep 14th, 2001 @ 4:27pm

    chintzy. sp.

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    ScooterBoy, Sep 14th, 2001 @ 5:44pm

    i think it's really heartening to see that the amazon fund is now over $5M and the yahoo fund is over $7M. and that's one person at a time.

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    Anonymous Coward, Sep 15th, 2001 @ 11:44am

    The VIA offer was 1million not 100.

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    Mike (profile), Sep 15th, 2001 @ 12:17pm

    Interesting... that *definitely* changed in the last 24 hours. Someone made a big typo, I guess.

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