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Microsoft Bends To Norwegian Pressure

Posted by kdawson on from the keeping-competitors-out dept.

Martin writes "Microsoft has agreed to change the terms of its school agreement contract with Norwegian regional municipalities, following a complaint by Norwegian open-source software company Linpro to the Norwegian Competition Authority. Microsoft 'introduced two kinds of flexibility in the agreement, that were previously missing,' the head of the company's Norway operations said. One of these 'kinds of flexibility' involved Microsoft not getting paid a license fee for each Linux and Mac computer in schools."

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  1. Re:Why does this not surprise me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here. Being an ally of the United States is no protection from our wrath!

  2. Re: Microsoft Bends To Norwegian Pressure by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Stand by for a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister.

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear