18 Jun
2002
18 Jun
'02
5:02 a.m.
On Sat, 25 May 2002 04:09:50 +0530 (IST), Frederick Noronha wrote:
Microsoft has been fighting back. In a number of countries, it has rapidly expanded giveaway programs, especially to schools in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia. This week, Microsoft announced it had signed an agreement with the South African government to give all the schools in that country free access to a selection of the company's software.
Oh, how surprising! Or maybe those highly paid MBAs in MS' marketing department were closely following FSF-India's mailing list and got the above brilliant idea from us!
Does anybody on this list *still* believe that harping on the so-called "cost advantage" of free software is a good idea?
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