Originally Posted by Botnst

Exactly right.

Some pharmaceutical companies have made both financial and in-kind contributions, too. But that also is good for those companies who do a lot of international business. a CEO of one of them (I'm sorry I don't recall which) said they had several thousand employees in Indonesia, though none were affected by the quake and tsunami, the local company essentially petitioned corporate and corporate came through. That's appropriate for a company, I think. But I cannot think that a big company that has no interest in the region should feel any obligation to give.