Roger Eller wrote:
I'm sure they give large sums of money to some very good causes, but why
not go all out and make a difference by really changing the world instead
of paying all those lawyers to take down Samsung? Ok, this one is
definitely over the top, and also naive, but wouldn't it be a wonderful
achievement for a company of such humble beginnings?
Like EULA terms, corporate philanthropy may also be a feature some folks
look for when selecting their vendors.
Here's the top 15 from last year's San Francisco Business Times' annual
Corporate Philanthropy Awards Summit:
Google, Inc.
AT&T
Wells Fargo Bank
Chevron Corp.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Safeway, Inc.
Bank of America, Corp.
Intel Corp.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
PG&E Corp.
Citi
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Gap, Inc.
Applied Materials, Inc.
Genentech, Inc.
<http://sanfranciscoblog.foundationcenter.org/corporate_giving/>
Only one OS vendor there, but they're at the top of the list and they
make a pretty useful OS; extra bonus points that it's also open source.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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