[120459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: news from Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Tue Dec 22 02:57:48 2009
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912220912160.25914@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:57:11 -0800
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>wrote:
>
> Google makes about $1.5B profit per quarter. $20M of charity? I don't
> like MS any more than most, but Gates Foundation has received $20B from Bill
> and Warren over the past 3 years. My hat goes off to those guys!
>
Just to put this in the right context you might want to read
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/21/google-2009-holiday-gift/
ie, this is not a charity donation from "Google", but from one part of
Google on behalf of their customers/suppliers.
Either way, I think we're a little off topic by this stage...
Scott.
