Microsoft has made an unrestricted $1 million donation to the Rust Foundation, demonstrating its commitment to the Rust programming language and its ecosystem.
This is effective advertisement, not a donation. A real ad (with a campaign) would probably have cost much more, and wouldn’t continue to be propagated for free months after the ad campaign is over, like this peace of news.
This type of ad is also much harder to filter/block, since not only it appears to be site-native, but also topic-native.
If microsoft made 22 billion of profit in three months, that’s 88 billion a year, so they donated 0.001% to rust.
But hey, a million bucks is a million bucks.
This is effective advertisement, not a donation. A real ad (with a campaign) would probably have cost much more, and wouldn’t continue to be propagated for free months after the ad campaign is over, like this peace of news.
This type of ad is also much harder to filter/block, since not only it appears to be site-native, but also topic-native.
Just like the random Sponsor drop to get more folks enrolled in their donation system so they can skim more off the top of the transaction.
Right. That’s $1 million less in taxes
Only if they have a 100% tax rate, which I doubt.