Re: Very Curious announcement

From: Tom Richards (tomr@aicasting.com)
Date: Thu Oct 28 1999 - 13:04:56 EEST


I had the same reaction as you Michael, to the P&G "gift" to MSOE. Companies
give "stuff" to colleges to take full advantage of the income tax savings.
The game is to assign big values to "stuff" (machines or patents) of little
real value.

At 01:26 AM 10/28/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>who posted that announcement that Proctor and Gamble are donating over
>40 patents to MSOE?
>
>I find this very interesting and very puzzling.

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