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+-   How M$ Beats GNU/Linux in Schools.-> on Saturday January 10 2009, @12:20PM twitter

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twitter writes "Ever wonder why schools still use Windows? Boycott Novell has extracted the details from 2002 M$ email presented in the Comes vrs Microsoft case and other leaks. What emerges is M$ desperate battle to "never lose to Linux." At stake for M$ is more than a billion dollars of annual revenue, vital user conditioning and governmental lock in that excludes competition, and software freedom for the rest of us. Education and Government Incentives [EDGI] and "Microsoft Unlimited Potential" are programs that allows vendors to sell Windows at zero cost. Don't take my word for it, go read the email for yourself.

M$'s nightmare scenario has already been realized in Indiana and other places. Windows is not really competitive and schools that switch save tens of millions of dollars. Because software is about as expensive as the hardware in these deals, the world could save up to $500 million each year by dumping M$. Now that the cat is out of the bag, it's hard to see what M$ can do other than what they did to Perter Quinn."
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