this is the spirit we need in india to keep policy undistracted. what next? M$ may just pay similar towns money to keep them from adopting linux? say, a 100 million dollar grant for the local children's park or some such stuff? looking forward to phase 2 of their strategies. :-) LL
Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/1855225 [0]Kurt Pfeifle writes "Steve Ballmer's recent trip to Munich to offer up to 90% rebates for the Microsoft Software Assurance and Licenses was in vain. The ruling party of Germans biggest city and self-proclaimed 'technology capital' now decided to migrate 14.000 workstations to Linux and an OSS office suite. A study comparing the alternatives had assigned 6218 (out of 10.000) points to Linux/OSS, while the MS Windows platform only scored 5293. [1] Babelfish translation of the latest newsticker story." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//www.heisede/newsticker/data/anw-26.05.03-004/&lp=de_en *** _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
