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Kintaro:
http://www.vim.org/

[20-Nov-2002] George Reilly, empoyee at Microsoft, challenged Vim users at Microsoft to raise money for their favorite text editor. They managed to raise $1,375. Microsoft will match that with $1,275, yielding a total of $2,650. You can read the full message here. I am grateful for the Microsoft employees and Microsoft itself to help Vim's charityware concept! More info about Vim's charityware here. (Bram Moolenaar)

voidmain:
Oh NO! Now I might have to switch to EMACS!  

Calum:
i think helping charities is a great idea, and it's one of the things i like about vim over emacs.

however i do think that charity donations as a form of public ego stroking are abominable. this sum is a drop in the ocean compared with what microsoft could afford as a company, and also compared with the advertising revenue that this boost may have costed otherwise.

voidmain:
I think it was an appropriate sum, and appropriate that it come from the employees. If they would have given much more I think it would have drudged up much controversy. This way they lay kinda low and we all get another hint that they use open source apps internally instead of their own crap.  

preacher:
The real question is whether they are using vim internally on *nix boxes.

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