On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:20, James Knott wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Ben Higginbottom wrote:
did apparently pay the Munich authorities a visit and made them an offer they did refuse to undercut the Suse/IBM bid sometime last year. Which makes it far more interesting as they apparently went for the best on balance bid as opposed to the cheapest.
Microsoft Germany authorised all salesmen in the public sector to offer 100% discount if they were in a competitive situation with Linux. I think this leaked out in 2003 or 2004.
In some jurisdictions, that might be considered illegal.
What do you think MS does all the time when they add/bundle in another piece of software because someone else has a competing product. The latest that comes to mind is the media player that now has to be removed from XP in Europe. I wish the US had the balls to do the same but I think our country leaders are being bought off (lobbyist) by MS. <opinion> If MS can't buy the competing product they add their own to put the competitor out of business (can you say Netscape, first one that comes to mind). </opinion> -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge