Related Politech messages: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=charity ********* Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:07:38 +1100 From: Nathan Cochrane <ncochraneat_private> Organization: The Age newspaper To: declanat_private Subject: Re: FC: Australian charity replies to Politech post on Microsoft threats Hi Declan I thought you and fellow politechboticians would be interested to know about the ongoing saga with the poor kids down in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. cheers Nathan Warrant issued for charity founder By DAVID ADAMS Tuesday 23 October 2001 The founder of Geelong-based computer-recycling charity PCs for Kids, Colin Philip Bayes, has failed to appear in court to answer a fraud-related offence this month. An arrest warrant was issued after Mr Bayes, formerly of the Geelong suburb of Belmont, failed to appear at Geelong Magistrates Court on a charge of obtaining property by deception between February 6, 1999, and March 16, 1999. Police said he had disappeared. Police at Geelong criminal investigation unit also want to serve summonses on Mr Bayes in relation to two further charges of obtaining property by deception. A detective said yesterday that all three charges related to the accounts of PCs for Kids and totalled about $60,000. He also confirmed that a Mitsubishi Pajero, which was in the charity's name, had disappeared. It is alleged Mr Bayes has taken the car. PCs for Kids, founded by Mr Bayes in 1999, recycles old and obsolete computer parts, rebuilding them into working computers that are then given to poor or disadvantaged children. Mr Bayes was recently involved in a dispute with Microsoft after the United States software giant refused to allow the charity to use its old software free of charge in refurbished computers. MORE: http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/10/23/FFX6NJ063TC.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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