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Nigerian Government Nixes Microsoft's Mandriva Block

Posted by Zonk on from the money-well-spent dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After trying to bribe a local supplier with a $400,000 marketing contract, Microsoft has still apparently lost out in trying to woo Nigeria's government to use Windows over Linux. Microsoft threw the money at the supplier after it chose Mandriva Linux for 17,000 laptops for school children across Nigeria. The supplier took the bait and agreed to wipe Mandriva off the machines, but now Nigeria's government has stepped in to stop the dirty deal."

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  1. I can feel my karma draining away, but... by JK_the_Slacker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Nigeria, the government stops YOU from taking bribes!

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  2. Excuse me while I have a hearty laugh by MichailS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Har har har har ^_^

    cough wheeze

  3. 640k enough for anyone? by denzacar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate to contradict my own jokes but...

    Imagine that they HAVE paid them 640k instead of 400, and that it was enough... wouldn't that make that old 640k saying finally correct... but since we would not hear about it then we would never know...

    Kind of a like tree falling in a forest without anyone there to hear it.

    Mind-boggling.

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  4. Thank you... by denzacar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thank you, anonymous moderator...

    I was aiming at funny, with light chances of insightful, but you just read the title and marked it as offtopic.

    Thank you, you humourless git.

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