It is really strange that a gesture which has the potential of bringing a smile on the faces of the discarded/forgotten people of society is being mocked and ridiculed by people here.
I never recieved a RSS feed that said
CADcrazy to help Bihar fight kala azar
or ever saw a News report on TV where the sec c and bimbo Smriti Rao talked
about
Praka commits $82.9 million to develop new tuberculosis vaccines
yet for some strange reason these very members instead of appreciating this gesture of Corporate social responsibility being practised by the company are finding faults in this move -
you would rather see people dying of hunger than a company earning a few brownie points.
why are you so against a malnourished kid from getting his share of much needed nourishment with the money they donate.
why does it cause you grief when woman is able to have her first safe delivery thanks to the well-equipped hospital where she gave birth. do i need to tell you who donated the money for this?
even if for the sake of an argument we assume that they are doing this for the marketing of Windows sw/services -
what is wrong with it people's lives are being saved in the end.
Why does nobody raise a finger when Infosys's foundation helps set up a new super-speciality govt hospital.
I don't hear anybody saying
Cheap Infosys marketing gimmick....now dirty tricks to get more business....doing infosys foundation and charity thing to save taxes ...aah for their monster corporation
are they forcing any organisation to use Windows as a pre-condition to giving them aid to fight diseases and malnourishment.
Or are you all trying to say that these people deserve to rot away and die since we ourselves are incapable of helping them in the scale required.
Whatever may be M.S.'s business style, as a human being you will never ever meet a person better than Bill Gates who gives away his personal wealth for the betterment of people who he will never ever come face-to-face with
Except for skydrive I personally don't use/like any M.S. services, however when it comes to philanthrophy no other individuals are as generous as the Gates family - tax savings or otherwise.