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IBM donates regularly to educational institutions, for example $1 million to North Carolina universities overall in 2003. One of the institutions was UNC Chapel Hill for its project that puts its School of Information and Library Science online (iBiblio, known as SunSite in the early days of the Web), plus be a public forum for ideas. About the only agenda of this project is free sharing of ideas and information. If you haven't seen Project Gutenberg on iBiblio, you're missing out.
To this effort IBM donated $250,000 in hardware in 2000, three years before Groklaw even existed. It's an open matter because IBM has nothing to hide.