"Poor can help..."
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| Cambodia approached Microsoft and asked them for localized versions of
| MS Office and Windows. The cost: $30 million. So instead, theC
| ambodian government turned to open source, finding their solution in
| OpenSUSE and OpenOffice.org.
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| Microsoft came back to them with a revised offer of $1 per user. By then,
| it was too late. "One dollar compared to zero dollars, which do I choose?"
| Noy said. Obvious.
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| Localization work on open source software took four years: two years to
| assemble the team and do the preliminary work, another two years for the
| actual translation work. First targets were OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and
| the email client, then followed by OpenSUSE and Kaffeine.
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http://villageidiotsavant.blogspot.com/2006/11/poor-can-help.html
No wonder Microsoft is afraid of Linux and attempts to put a price tag on
Opensuse.
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