Donate to help a MySQler

Does anyone else find it a little disheartening that despite being hosted on a MySQL / SUN site, and despite this meaning that they're obviously not providing his family with health insurance, that they're not even offering to do any contribution matching? I'd hope for a little more from a small-ish company that just got bought for a billion dollars.

<i>"... Donations are requested to help Andrii Nikitin, a MySQL support engineer in Ukraine, provide for his son Ivan who requires a bone marrow transplant operation. The cost of this operation is expected to be between €150,000 - €250,000 ($235,000 - $400,000). Please help us provide Ivan a chance to live ..."</i><p>I know this could be seen as a heartless gesture but has anyone verified with MySql that Andrii Nikitin is who the page claims? I know this is shown off the mysql site but that's just a webpage. Does anyone personally/professionally know Andrii? Does anyone know Andrii at MySql?<p>It would help greatly Anreii's cause if MySql "officially" set up an MySql postal account allowing non paypal money orders, cheques etc to be passed on if they use MySql by name.

I will tweet and maybe blog about this. I really can't help him much with the money part, but the least i can do is show it to people who have money.

The price quoted sounds high even for the USA.<p><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Bone-Marrow-Transplant-Costs---For-Around-$30,000-and-World-Class-Surgery&#38;id=167381" rel="nofollow">http://ezinearticles.com/?Bone-Marrow-Transplant-Costs---For...</a><p>says it can be done much cheaper in India.<p>This is not leading-edge medicine today (it was perhaps 10 years ago). But medical centers still try to charge leading-edge prices.<p>Yet another reason we need a national health care in the USA - to get doctors out of their Mercedes, off the golf courses and back into medicine for medicine's sake.

Serious question: why should I donate for this cause when I can donate for vaccines or famine relief and literally save orders of magnitude more people?

If I had money I would donate, I don't like PayPal and don't like using them unless I have to, they should setup alternate payment methods so people have a choice on which one they prefer to use.

Its possible to do bone marrow transplantation for approx. $10000 here in Kerala(South India). The service is world class. Can someone close to MySQL/SUN pass this information?<p>Here is a press report : <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/04/stories/2005080411550300.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.hindu.com/2005/08/04/stories/2005080411550300.htm</a><p>The hospital: <a href="http://lakeshorehospital.com" rel="nofollow">http://lakeshorehospital.com</a>

Wish they wouldn't use Paypal.

Hmm donated via paypal but get this after reaching mysql's site:<p>Checkout Cannot checkout because you have no items in your cart

Once again HN proves that its community is not only made of smart individuals, but caring and thoughtful individuals. I am glad I am here.

Increases in guaranteed human rights <i>must</i> keep pace with technological and moral development.

Huh. That site repeatedly made my Firefox (V3) crash. 5 times in a row. Weird...

its a good thing that doctors accept payment in tweets

Wow, that picture is really manipulative.

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