Re: [Fsfe-uk] Microsoft Tsunami Relief Effort

[Alex Hudson]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:05 +0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 12:33, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > The subject is possibly a little tongue in cheek; their effort appears
> > so far to consist of attempting to fleece some Sri Lankans of $1755
> > worth of XP licences (so that they can use the laptops that were donated
> > to them by IBM, value probably ~$12000 or so).
> 
> The very next posting, however, notes that Microsoft had second thoughts 
> (presumably visions of foot-in-mouth and egg-on-face), and have now donated 
> the licenses.

So they did. 

Not totally surprising, as you note ;)

Cheers,

Alex.