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Peru mulls Free Software, Gates gives $550k to Peru Prez (Register)
The Register
looks into issues behind a recent donation of $550,000 to Peru in
money, software, and consulting by Microsoft.
"Peru, you see, has been threatening to outlaw Windows by mandating Free Software in government departments. And seriously folks, it is not widely known (or at least, not widely enough) that when major Microsoft contracts or customers are in peril, Bill is frequently deployed as the Ultimate Weapon."
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Peru mulls Free Software, Gates gives $550k to Peru Prez (Register) Posted Jul 16, 2002 20:44 UTC (Tue) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link] $550k is _very_ small beer to Redmond. It may look a bit more from the perspective of a non-very-rich South American country; however, it's not enough to make even the President's entourage extremely rich men.Hopefully the common sense we've seen coming from Peru will outweigh this obvious commercial bribe.
Peru mulls Free Software, Gates gives $550k to Peru Prez (Register) Posted Jul 16, 2002 22:17 UTC (Tue) by BogusUser ((unknown), #1713) [Link] Microsoft is again playing the kid generously handing out cocaine at the party, and shoving small change into people's pockets.It's getting tougher these days to keep one's friends. Will it work for another time?
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