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Telstra Used Linux To Get Microsoft Discounts
awful writes "Last year Slashdot ran a story about Australia's largest telco moving to Linux desktops. Turns out it was all a way to get some tasty discounts from Microsoft. The Australian is reporting that Telstra just signed a four-year deal with MS for $AU15-20 million, for 40,000 users. No figures yet on how much of a discount Telstra got, but MS might want to rethink handing back all its cash to investors if this is how they're going to do business from now on ..."
The penguins are biting me!!!!!
Sad news. Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs is dying of pancreatic cancer. According to a hospital spokesman, this is one of the most devastating forms of cancer, with survival after diagnosis usually limited to one year at most. Even if you don't like homosexual computers and one button mice, there's no denying Steve "Rim" Jobs was an American icon. He will be missed.
are you on crack? you sure sound like it.
Because I hate the USA, I support Bush's policies of driving the country into the ground, and I hope that he wins the election later this year. However, I now have a second, and morally better, reason. If he can do this (and I am sure he won't), it may also spread to other countries and force them to rethink income taxation. I have always been in favor of a single, potentially flat rate (I hear France has different tax rates for things like cars, etc, maybe it's a good thing), sales tax.
There's a benefit to running Windoze? That's funny right? Let me know what it is. If you can't you can get back to hating Telstra with a new passion because someone was either very stupid or bribed. 40,000 M$ desktops, oh my aching head, what a nightmare.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.