Giving it free to startups is not just "good faith" or "do good", "hire better" etc. it's getting user hooked up to the software, long term investment and almos

Giving it free to startups is not just "good faith" or "do good", "hire better" etc. it's getting user hooked up to the software, long term investment and almost free word-of-mouth marketing. FC knows that FB is a tool that will show itself after a long time (hence 45 day) trials. When we start using FB our company was only 2 people now we are 9 and also we are a paid customer of FB. For these reasons I don't want to believe that FC is not using channels like SO,Joel's blog as a marketing tool. That would be a waste of awesome free marketing.