Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux

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Da Massive writes "Microsoft has denied paying a Nigerian contractor $400,000 in a bid to retard Linux's movement into the government sector. Media reports alleged that Microsoft had proposed paying that sum to a government contractor under a joint marketing agreement last year, in order to persuade the contractor to replace Linux OS with Windows on thousands of school laptops. Although a joint marketing agreement was drafted to document the best practices for using technology in education, it was never executed, said a Microsoft regional manager for Africa. It became clear, he added, that one customer wanted a Linux OS."http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/11/11/2310235 (http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/11/2310235&from=rss)
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