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Microsoft denies paying contractor to abandon Linux

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Microsoft has denied paying a Nigerian contractor US$400,000 in a bid to battle Linux's movement into the government sector. Media reports alleged that Microsoft had proposed paying the sum to a government contractor under a joint marketing agreement last year in order to persuade the contractor to replace Linux OS with Windows OS on thousands of school laptops.

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Wow, what favorable treatment from the press.... phsolide 1 2,269 Nov 12, 2008 3:41 PM
And there it is again techiem2 14 2,649 Nov 12, 2008 9:13 AM

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