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Microsoft funds African PCs amid open source debate

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China Post; By Rebecca Harrison JOHANNESBURG, Reuters 		Mail this story
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Microsoft Corp. is funding computer centers it hopes will reach half a million poor South Africans and argued on Monday that free open source software is not always the best option for developing countries. (In other words - Microsoft has decided to take on Mark Shuttleworth -Ed.)

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AnonymousCoward ·
...and gives away a few million unlimited copies of Vista (or scale it and make it a few billion copies) for free, then I'll be impressed.

Until then, he's just chasing tail-lights. Again.

Hmmm... should be fun watching him trying to undercut Ubuntu...

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