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U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off
declan writes "My CNET News colleague Ina Fried has written an interesting article today about how the U.S. Army has told Microsoft to stop sending free CD-ROMs of Office 2003 to government employees. In what's effectively a cease and desist order, the Army said: 'Your offer of free software places our employees and soldiers in jeopardy of unknowingly committing a violation of the ethics rules and regulations to which they have taken an oath to uphold.' Whoops! Perhaps this is Microsoft's latest way to fight free software at the Pentagon. Remember that just 8 months ago, the Army paid $471 million for Microsoft licenses."
Slashdot Awards.
1997 - 6.
1998 - 6.
1999 - 6.
2000 - 3.
Ever since - 0.
Slashdot went down the drain and remains there.
I wouldn't even mind AOL if it would give me the option to just TYPE IN THE ACCESS NUMBER. Christ, it refused to connect to get them, and so I couldn't install the damned thing.
Then an Indian told me the modem that worked fine with 7.0 and 8.0 was "incompatable"
I bet MS is so far in bed with the military that you could call him "Col. Gates of the CIA."
Nice, I sent this story in at 10 o'clock this morning... I guess since I'm not part of the /. "in-crowed" it wasn't news then.
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fallen se' of that sweet earth
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when mine duca it tried me of coast,
33 saying: "you Speak; these are Latin ".
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sanza indugio to speak I began:
36 "Or spirit that se' down hidden here,
Romagna yours is not, and it was not never,
sanza war ne' cuor de' its tyrants;
39 but ' n evident nobody or I left you.
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42 yes that Cervia ricuopre co' its vanni.
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and of bloody Franceschi heap,
45 under the branches greens it is found again.
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48 here where soglion fan of the teeth I suck.
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the white man leads lioncel from the nest,
51 that dumb part from the been ones to the verno.
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to person who never returned to the world,
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some did not return alive, s' i' hears the true one,
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75 not furon leonine, but of vixen.
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Silly troll. "Faggot" posts are for closeted gays.