<story><title>Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi&apos;s to UK Schools</title><url>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>If one were being cynical, one might suggest that this was a way for Google to distract attention from it not paying UK tax (through loopholes):   
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-chairman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meaty</author><text>Who cares.&lt;p&gt;The government are quite happily coughing up £35bn of tax of our cash to &quot;fight terrorism&quot;, yet are quite happily throwing only £32bn of tax at education.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d rather Google gave all their money directly in schemes like this than had it divvied up into the warmongers chests and pissed into running itself.&lt;p&gt;Source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/total&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/total&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi&apos;s to UK Schools</title><url>http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3158</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>UnoriginalGuy</author><text>If one were being cynical, one might suggest that this was a way for Google to distract attention from it not paying UK tax (through loopholes):   
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-chairman&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmillikin</author><text>A cynical person would note that the UK government isn&apos;t upset that the loopholes are being used, since they&apos;ve made no serious attempts to close them. They&apos;re upset that the loopholes are being used by the &lt;i&gt;wrong companies&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;If Apple or Google or Starbucks spent as much on UK lobbying as other multinationals, I doubt they&apos;d be receiving any negative press.</text></comment>