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Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 07:57, 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.
Isn't that the equivalent of dumping, and against WTO policy?
Policy Bolicy, MS doesn't care, but Munich knows a rat when they see one and what rats do to you. I read here in the UK that they have Cambridge University sown up, an object lesson in how to bribe people with their own money, call it generosity and get richer and richer on it. Then the National health Service is eternally grateful with 500m pounds thrown MS's way on top of a 3-legged system that cost them 1 billion - prostitution is still illegal here, but I haven't seen anyone jailed for it in many a year, so the politicians can practice their art in relative safety. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====