Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD

[Markie]

Nice plan,

Although they say a charity of your choice, it seems you can only choose
from http://getbettermail.com/charities.asp? Or maybe I just don't get it
(wouldn't suprise me :))

Markie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Pitcher" <kpitcher at locallink.net>
To: <freebsd-chat at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:30 PM
Subject: Get MS to donate money to FreeBSD


> Today we got this letter from Microsoft promoting
http://getbettermail.com.
>
> They are pushing services that help reach the correct target audience,
> promoting that it is environmentally friendly. You'll also notice the
> website has trees all over. The kicker is, the brochure is super heavy
duty
> paper, very thick, very large brochure. Lots of trees died for this
mailing
> about being environmentally friendly.
>
> Anyhow, they will pick one entry to give $10,000 to the charity of their
> choice. The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit, so it should be
applicabley.
> Also it'd be nice to have money given to the Foundation so they can finish
the
> work on native java binaries.
>
> It appears anyone can fill out the form, as even their guest account
offers ways
> to have a charity receive money. If enough people enter to swing the odds
in
> FreeBSD's favor, that'd be a great headline to see "Microsoft helps fund
> development of Java running on Open Source"
>
> Oh, and in all of the questions asking about which operating system
various
> applications run on (Web servers, messaging, etc) you'll have to be
> answering "Other" a whole lot. They kinda forgot to include FreeBSD as an
> option, along with postfix, etc...
>
>
> Keith
>
>
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