[ale] A lovely story about Microsoft

[charles.shapiro at nubridges.com (Charles Shapiro)]

Found this on the Register...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27878.html

Looks like Microsoft, in their infinite generosity to the poor and
downtrodden, wanted to donate $2,000 worth of MS Office Pro licenses to
Schoolnet, an organization setting up a network of 2ndary schools in
Namibia. In return, they only wanted $9,000 in operating system
licensing fees. Wait, it gets better. They also wanted to donate a bunch
of networking stuff... Oops, only some software, for an unspecified
'Research and Development' cost.

Oddly enough, Schoolnet is sticking with Linux for now. Maybe they know
something Microsoft does not.

-- CHS

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