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   You need to ignore the noise from the bozos like Joe and those whom =
he would promote.  The web page for Microsoft's Government Source =
Licensing Program =
(http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sharedsource/government.asp) is = eight
months older then the story quoted below.  The author is such a = great
researcher that it only took him eight months to notice a program =
Microsoft promoted on its shared source web site.  So brilliant that the =
author failed to notice the mention of the Government Source Licensing =
Program in a press release dated more than a year earlier =
(http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/dec01/12-03SharedSourcePR.=
asp).  This is the kind of sharp reporting one comes to expect from = these bozos.

   As for your remarks, which you attempt to attribute to an anonymous =
third party, don't be an idiot.

Rich



  "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message =
news:00280vo8o60uf3ao8pkbd24ge5r9m3jvgd{at}4ax.com...
  On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:18:36 -0600, "Joe Barr"
   wrote:

  >
  >The battle against Linux takes new twist
  >
  >By Paul Hales: Friday 13 December 2002, 15:37
  >
  >MICROSOFT IS GETTING SO DESPERATE to convert the Indian sub-continent =
to
  >Windows it is prepared to share the Windows source code with a select =
band
  >of government bodies.
  >
  >A story in the Economic Times of India says the software monopolist =
has
  >proposed to the Indian ministry of information technology to share =
the
  >Windows source code with one unspecified government body. A Microsoft
  >spokesman in India contacted by the publication confirmed the company =
was
  >"evaluating the idea" of sharing the code but wouldn't be drawn
  >
  >
  >See the rest at: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3D6726

  As someone remarked, the Indians are taking it at MS's word that that
  is the source code. It's not like they can compile it or anything,
  right?=20

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   You need
to ignore the =
noise from the=20
bozos like Joe and those whom he would promote.  The web page
for=20 Microsoft's Government Source Licensing Program (h=">http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sharedsource/government.asp">h=
)=20" target="new">ttp://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sharedsource/government.asp)=20
is eight months older then the story quoted below.  The author is
= such a=20
great researcher that it only took him eight months to notice a program=20
Microsoft promoted on its shared source web site.  So brilliant =
that the=20
author failed to notice the mention of the Government Source Licensing = Program=20
in a press release dated more than a year earlier (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/dec01/12-03SharedSo=
urcePR.asp">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/dec01/12-03Shar=
edSourcePR.asp). =20
This is the kind of sharp reporting one comes to expect from these=20
bozos.
 
   As for
your remarks, which =
you attempt=20
to attribute to an anonymous third party, don't be an =
idiot.
 
Rich
 


  "Jeff Shultz" <jeff{at}shultzinfosystems.com=">mailto:jeff{at}shultzinfosystems.com">jeff{at}shultzinfosystems.com=
>=20
  wrote in message news:00280vo8o60=
uf3ao8pkbd24ge5r9m3jvgd{at}4ax.com...On=20
  Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:18:36 -0600, "Joe Barr"<warthawg{at}austin.rr.com>=20">mailto:warthawg{at}austin.rr.com">warthawg{at}austin.rr.com>=20
  wrote:>>The battle against
Linux takes new=20
  twist>>By Paul Hales: Friday 13 December 2002,=20
  15:37>>MICROSOFT IS GETTING SO
DESPERATE to convert the =
Indian=20
  sub-continent to>Windows it is prepared to share the Windows =
source=20
  code with a select band>of government
bodies.>>A =
story in=20
  the Economic Times of India says the software monopolist =
has>proposed=20
  to the Indian ministry of information technology to share =
the>Windows=20
  source code with one unspecified government body. A =
Microsoft>spokesman=20
  in India contacted by the publication confirmed the company=20
  was>"evaluating the idea" of sharing the code
but wouldn't be=20
  drawn>>>See the rest
at: http://www.theinquire" target="new">http://www.theinquire=">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3D6726">http://www.theinquire=
r.net/?article=3D6726As=20
  someone remarked, the Indians are taking it at MS's word that =
thatis the=20
  source code. It's not like they can compile it or anything,right?=20


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