____/ Linonut on Monday 17 March 2008 12:02 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Microsoft Pays $200 for Mentioning Its Tools
>>
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>>| If you're a professor and you mention Microsoft programming tools in a
>>| scholarly presentation -- in fact, even if you just use the tools --
>>| Microsoft will send you a check for $200.
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>> http://chronicle.com/data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-33.dir/33a03001.htm
>
> (April 24, 1998)
>
> Microsoft officials say the speakers' bureau, as it is called, is a
> well-intentioned effort to help faculty members cover their
> conference costs. Ethics watchdogs call it an unabashed attempt to
> turn professors into advertisers.
Shades of:
Microsoft calls it "marketing help" while ethical people see it for what it
is -- bribing Nigerian official to disobey a signed deal.
[Mandriva CEO:] An open letter to Steve Ballmer
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| Wow! I’m impressed, Steve! What have you done for these guys to change their
| mind like this? It’s pretty clear to me, and it will be clear to everyone.
| How do you call what you just did Steve, in the place where you live? In my
| place, they give it various names, I’m sure you know them.
|
| Hey Steve, how do you feel looking at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
|
| Of course, I will keep fighting this one and the next one, and the next one.
| You have the money, the power, and maybe we have a different sense of ethics
| you and I, but I believe that hard work, good technology and ethics can win
| too.
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http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter-to-steve-ballmer/
Lessons from Africa: How to Kill Your Own FUD
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| So, even as Microsoft claims superior quality over Linux, they act as if they
| don't even buy their own FUD. If they really believed that Windows was
| superior to Linux, they wouldn't have to bribe people with “marketing help”
| to get them to choose Windows.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2007-11-09-030-26-OP-MD-MS
Linux wins Nigerian school desktops back from Microsoft
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| "We are sticking with that platform," said the official, who would not give
| his name.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=6124
http://tinyurl.com/27ycq9
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