[antiRepublicrat]

Tons of people and companies donate money to various causes -- and that doesn't automatically turn those organizations into mouthpieces for their benefactors.

Yet you were one of those people saying Groklaw is bought and paid for by IBM just because years ago IBM donated some hardware to the iBiblio project that hosts thousands of public sites, one of its newest members being Groklaw. Yet you don't think Microsoft directly giving money to an organization would influence its studies of things important to Microsoft's business.

[Bush2000]

Yet you were one of those people saying Groklaw is bought and paid for by IBM just because years ago IBM donated some hardware to the iBiblio project that hosts thousands of public sites, one of its newest members being Groklaw. Yet you don't think Microsoft directly giving money to an organization would influence its studies of things important to Microsoft's business.

The point was that Groklaw couldn't have even existed without IBM's contributions. Big freakin' difference.