From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Jul 3 11:14:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mooseriver.com (erie.mooseriver.com [205.166.121.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D0037B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:14:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by mooseriver.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f63IEhp07924; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 11:14:43 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: David Johnson Cc: "Kenneth P. Stox" , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <20010703111443.B7799@mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <3B4208FC.6C9AB8F7@acuson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3B4208FC.6C9AB8F7@acuson.com>; from djohnson@acuson.com on Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:03:40AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 $8.5 million with 52% of that going to the republicans. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 4.3 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | www.bafug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message