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Date:      Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:14:43 -0700
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>
To:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
Cc:        "Kenneth P. Stox" <stox@imagescape.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning?
Message-ID:  <20010703111443.B7799@mooseriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B4208FC.6C9AB8F7@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:03:40AM -0700
References:  <XFMail.010702212456.stox@imagescape.com> <3B4208FC.6C9AB8F7@acuson.com>

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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:03:40AM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
> "Kenneth P. Stox" wrote:
> 
> > This is a very recent phenomenon in Mr. Gates career. Until 1997, or so, his
> > charitible contributions ( outside of donating copies of Microsoft products to
> > schools ) were virtually zero.
> 
> I have heard the following from my conspiracy buddy friends. I have not
> taken the time to check out the veracity. Al Gore's daughter used to
> work (interned?) for Microsoft at the time the Microsoft was definitely
> in violation the Sporkin decree. Nothing was done while she worked
> there. In addition, Microsoft was one of the very few large corporations
> that did not contribute funds to political candidates. The wheels of the
> DOJ did not start turning until Al Gore's daughter left the company and
> Bill Clinton discovered that they hadn't paid protection money.


I'm not sure about Al Gore's daughter, this is the first time I'm hearing
this but I am certain that microsoft contributed money in the last election
cycle. The amount that was quoted in the San Jose Mercury news, was $8.5
million with 52% of that going to the republicans.


Josef

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