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Details of Linux-in-Munich Deal Revealed
An anonymous reader writes "USA Today is running a piece about the lengths which Microsoft went to in order not to lose the government of Munich's account to a Linux-based proposal from SuSE. Interesting to see how these types of contracts are structured, and just what Microsoft is willing to give up to prevent losing to Linux."
Label me a troll or flame bate but Linux is not a garage OS anymore.
Linux is marketed by companies to make money.
Windows is marketed by Microsoft to make money.
Where is the news story here?
If there is profit to be gained no matter how small the margain is, companies are going to go after it. And in this case, if Microsoft can make a profit and under cut a competitor at the same time denying them profits, they are going to do it.
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
Someone else has already shot this "insightful" post down, so I won't bother. Slashdot has become a strawman factory circle wank. The factual correctness of postings is getting so low that we have descended into rhetoric and dogma- the stuff that makes people with something interesting to say back up and go somewhere else.