What a stupid "bash M$ and hit front page on digg" article.
As a bunch of the TC comments pointed out -- the $0.14/meal is the figure directly from the charity. They're not taking them out to a restaurant - it's a food bank with simple food sourced in bulk. The $.14/meal could be easily met at scale.
That's not the point of the article though. I agree that it's a bit misleading for Microsoft to say it's giving away 8 free meals for every download, just to promote it's own agenda (IE8 advertising). As the author stated, Microsoft should have just came clean and said it was donating $1 per download to fight hunger in America.
I thoroughly enjoy the absolute ripping the author gets in the comment section. Ignoring Microsoft's other philathropic efforts, $1 million is still more good than he will ever bring about in his entire life.
What's with the downvotes? You think it's fair to compare the philanthropic efforts of a $200,000,000,000 company to an individual? $1 million is nothing to Microsoft, 0.0005% of their market capital, but more than most people's net worth.
I don't disagree that this was a poor article and headline, but that was an unfair criticism.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] threadA lot of blogs do this, but TechCrunch really takes the cake.
I'd love to see the 8 meals that could be bought for $1.15.
As a bunch of the TC comments pointed out -- the $0.14/meal is the figure directly from the charity. They're not taking them out to a restaurant - it's a food bank with simple food sourced in bulk. The $.14/meal could be easily met at scale.
I don't disagree that this was a poor article and headline, but that was an unfair criticism.