Microsoft Denies Paying Nigerians $400K To Ditch Linux

Da Massive writes "Microsoft has denied paying a Nigerian contractor $400,000 in a bid to retard Linux's movement into the government sector. Media reports alleged that Microsoft had proposed paying that sum to a government contractor under a joint marketing agreement last year, in order to persuade the contractor to replace Linux OS with Windows on thousands of school laptops. Although a joint marketing agreement was drafted to document the best practices for using technology in education, it was never executed, said a Microsoft regional manager for Africa. It became clear, he added, that one customer wanted a Linux OS."

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Re:REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

[nog_lorp]

amount to USD$40,000,000 (forty million U.S. dollars) or more.

I am authorized to offer you 1% of the value of these contracts, USD$573,000.75

Re:Is vista really that bad?

[darkonc]

I think that some people were going for a +5Troll rating (first person rates as 'troll' and then everybody else rates as 'underrated', which leaves the 'troll' designation intact). Unfortunately, somebody accidently rated it as funny (probably in reaction to the parent complaint), and the spell may now be broken.

Does anybody have a spare 'troll' or 'underrated' moderation lying about?