From: "Joe Barr" 



As they might have once said (of Microsoft) in Dallas:

mighty white of them.



On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:59:42 +0000, Mike '/m' wrote:

>
> "The African nation of Namibia is large in area and small in
> population with considerable distances between communities. Imagine
> the challenges of getting its schools wired to the Net. SchoolNet
> Namibia, a chiefly volunteer organization, struggles to do precisely
> that with a free ISP and numerous other initiatives to get the
> nation's schools, many of which lack any library resources at all,
> on-line.
>
> "Imagine the pleasure with which SchoolNet would initially have
> confronted a charitable overture from Microsoft involving free
> software. Now imagine the disappointment of learning that accepting
> the 'gift' would entail outlays of money in the range of fifteen times
> the value of the M$ Trojan horse...."
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27878.html
>
>
>
>  /m

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