Yup, got that impression as well, but it's still pretty funny...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ben Moskowitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benrito@gmail.com">benrito@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I'm sure they didn't think twice—they probably had some low-level person looking for students in tech-oriented places to do some paid blogging. The people in charge of this initiative probably aren't even aware of the politics at play.<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Elizabeth Stark wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I do find it somewhat surprising, and I'll tell you why. Unlike the scenario where MS is donating to CC or Apache, here they're asking free culture members to *blog* about MS software, which generally goes counter to the philosophy of free culture in its proprietary nature. But hey, maybe they'd be happy to hear what we have to say. ;)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rich Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:miserlou@gmail.com" target="_blank">miserlou@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
@Rob - the email address is attached in the original email - send them<br> an email if you're willing to give it a shot. I'd be really really<br> interested in what they're trying to pull.<br> <font color="#888888"><br>
R<br> </font><div><div></div><div><br> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Fred Benenson <<a href="mailto:fred.benenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">fred.benenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Nothing is surprising about it to me, hence my careful wording.<br>
><br> > ~ ~ ~<br> > thoughts / <a href="http://fredbenenson.com/blog" target="_blank">http://fredbenenson.com/blog</a><br> > work / <a href="http://kickstarter.com" target="_blank">http://kickstarter.com</a><br>
> sights / <a href="http://flickr.com/fcb" target="_blank">http://flickr.com/fcb</a><br> > sounds / <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis" target="_blank">http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis</a><br> > status / <a href="http://twitter.com/mecredis" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mecredis</a><br>
><br> ><br> ><br> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Rob Myers <<a href="mailto:rob@robmyers.org" target="_blank">rob@robmyers.org</a>> wrote:<br> >><br> >> On 20/01/10 21:07, Fred Benenson wrote:<br>
>> > As surprising as it might seem, Microsoft also supports Creative<br> >> > Commons:<br> >> ><br> >> > <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/tag/microsoft</a><br>
>> ><br> >><br> >> What is surprising about that? They give money to the Apache Foundation<br> >> as well. Anything that doesn't threaten their interests. Microsoft are a<br> >> proprietary software company. Neither CC nor permissive licensing<br>
>> threatens their ability to remove people's freedom to use software.<br> >><br> >> But you'll notice they don't support the FSF.<br> >><br> >> What *would* be surprising would be if News Corp. supported CC...<br>
>><br> >> - Rob (who gives both CC and the FSF money each month).<br> >><br> >> _______________________________________________<br> >> Discuss mailing list<br> >> <a href="mailto:Discuss@freeculture.org" target="_blank">Discuss@freeculture.org</a><br>
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