Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Microsoft denies paying contractor to abandon Linux

By Remmy Nweke, IDG News Service\Lagos Bureau
11 Nov, 2008
Microsoft has denied paying a Nigerian contractor US$400,000 in a bid to battle Linux’s movement into the government sector.

Media reports alleged that Microsoft had proposed paying the sum to a government contractor under a joint marketing agreement last year in order to persuade the contractor to replace Linux OS with Windows OS on thousands of school laptops.

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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:32:01 +0300 [01:32:01 PM CST]
From: Robert Alai
Subject: Microsoft denies paying contractor to abandon Linux

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There is a major disadvantage to the ‘Microsoft way of doing things’ on PC-s. In the over whelming majority of instances, that difficulty is high licensing fees for application software tools.

To avoid this, ‘The other way’, is to work with open source software solutions. Usually although not always, this would involve usage of some flavor of Linux (Suse, Fedora Core, Debian, …) or Unix (FreeBsd) operating system.

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