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[–] wesmoc 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

All big corporations have done this for years and it is a tried and true method. Nothing really wrong with it since usually everyone gets something out of it. It's only wrong when they go to lengths to hide it.

After having been exposed to Mac's back in the late 80's because college required the purchase of a Mac, it wasn't hard to see how it all worked. I saw it more clearly back in the mid 90's when I was working at a major university and involved with the annual donation program (this high end university did not need donations from corporations, but all universities do this.. its part of their game). Microsoft donation of computers with the stipulation that Windows had to run in them (early days of Linux) in an effort to push out the trend towards Apple, Sun Microsystems donating $1m of servers for their infrastructure, SGI Indy's for their graphics labs. It's all about exposing people at their formative years to a tech that they then become loyal to.

There are tons of charities out there, many worse than others. Very few (if any) are run without an underlying motive.