[kafkaesq]

Ploy or not, I'm not happy with TC blindly passing along the "$1M donation" meme, clearly meant to suggest a pure cash donation... when, when you read a few lines down, you find out that "a part cash, but part (read: presumably mostly) credits toward unused inventory" donation --

-- as the vast majority of BigCorp "donations" to noble causes reveal themselves to be, when you scratch the surface.

[koolba]

I'm not sure of the split but say it's $X of cash an $1M - $X of non-cash credits. I'll take that over just the $X cash any day of the week. This isn't like out PCs to schools to market to the schools/students down the road, this is a pure charity where they happen to have a good that they can directly offer without long term commitment. It's no different than a sandwich shop sending their excess inventory to a soup kitchen at the end of the day.

[kafkaesq]

Oh the donation by itself is perfectly fine.

It's just a bit disappointing that media outlets (like TC in this case) consistently allow themselves to get pulled into spinning a lot these as pure cash donations (by emitting headlines that say "XCorp donates $Y" with no other qualifiers), as if that's what they actually were. Which, most of the time, they quite plainly aren't.