[IAEP] Revision 50 of the Sugar Labs Fundraising Committe notes

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Sat Jul 16 11:56:36 EDT 2016


Hi Laura

I'd like to follow up on this thread :)

On 15 July 2016 at 23:39, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:

> - Microsoft (laura -1: No private software funds shall get into our
> accounts!) (dave +1: money is money, and almost all the funding sources
> are private companies; the Nadella Microsoft is very different to the
> Gates/Ballmer era and is about as ethical as Google, Facebook, Intel, or
> IBM :) (Laura: don't apply, the requirement from grants providers to
> resonate SL values is not negotiable as it stands for the whole learning
> model we are proposing.) (Sean -1: No point adding Microsoft or Bill &
> Melinda Gates Foundation to this list.) (Dave: You assert your own values
> as "SL values", but the observable behaviour of SL and OLPC is not
> consistent with them. What do you see as the difference between Google and
> Microsoft? Why does SL take Google's money?)


How does Google resonate with SL values more than Microsoft?

Cheers
Dave
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