[Fsf-friends] Query about Karnataka...

[Khuzaima A. Lakdawala]

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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