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Israel v. Microsoft, Next Round

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-tough-guy-eh? dept.

hodet writes "From Haaretz.com, in predictable fashion, looks like a little tough bargaining with Microsoft is all that is needed to get your way. As many predicted after this story, looks like all you have to do is threaten to move to an OSS alternative to make them relent. Maybe it's time to stop getting excited about every little announcement that comes out." The upshot of the story is that Microsoft is willing to split the components of Office in order to sell it to the Israeli government's Finance Ministry. Reader blunte, though, links to a story that discounts the importance of MS's move: "Israel re-iterates: No More MS Software. This is round two. MS has made an effort to reconcile with Israel, and Israel still says No. Israel govt's purchases account for 3-4% of MS Israel's annual revenue."

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  1. Re:Correct Version. by bersl2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Obviously you ACs out there haven't heard about Mossad before...

  2. Do you know what I love the best? by 0x1337 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is whenever you "challenge" the official party line, and step on the toes of loudmouth lobby groups who syphon off millions to fund a racist and apartheid state - fellow Slashdot trolls slam you with -infinity "Flaimbait" or "Troll"

    Fucking pathetic.

  3. Re:The Right. The Drama(TM) by CrankyFool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I'm pretty comfortable stating it's a fine assault rifle.

    Note the link you provided mentions one problem with it -- that it's heavy -- and notes the author never actually carried it into combat. AND it notes that people who actually used it have taken the author to task for dogging the Galil.

    (one of my favorite anecdotes to tell about how Israeli military weapons design works differently from US military weapons design goes something like this: One of the problems they were trying to fix when designing the Galil was the more-than-acceptable rate of magazine lips bending in the field, resulting in unreliable feeding. The designers spent some time in the trenches with the soldiers and found out they were using magazine lips as bottle openers, eventually resulting in bending the lips. Solution? They designed the bayonet lug on the Galil so it could be used as a bottle opener.)

    This is going to get modded offtopic, isn't it? :)