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Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows

Posted by Zonk on from the who-needs-an-ms-product dept.

Spy der Mann writes "Noticing the Microsoft threat to withdraw Windows from South Korea, the Linspire CEO, Kevin Carmony, just offered to license every computer in the country with Linspire, for just $5m. This would be around 10 cents / person. 'South Korea could save around a quarter of a billion dollars. More importantly, however, it would break South Korea loose from the monopolistic grasp of Microsoft, which the country currently finds itself under,'"

3 of 279 comments (clear)

  1. i rarely do this but... MOD PARENT UP! by koekepeer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    agreed 110%

  2. I offer North America free Debian licenses by kinsoa · · Score: 0, Redundant

    to help them to break the Microsoft monopole.

    hope this helps.

  3. The best offer.... by jkrise · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is .... Windows 98 SE plus Cygwin. A Linux box sitting in the corner with all the apps, including the browser. Windows 98 to handle all the driver and user issues. No support required - after all, what support does MS offer for any of it's products?

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    If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....