RE: [SLUG] Microsoft loses showdown in Houston(OT)

2003-01-22 Thread Rowling, Jill
No, 'tis still there, but you need to stitch together the two lines that
make up the full URL. It's also on slashdot of course.

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the story has been removed

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This is a "must read."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030122/tc_
usatoday/4798893

Microsoft loses showdown in Houston

Byron Acohido USA TODAY

HOUSTON -- The people who run this city recently heard a familiar
pitch
  from Microsoft: Sign up for a multiyear, $12 million software
licensing  plan or face an audit exposing the city's use of software
it
hadn't  paid for.

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Re: [SLUG] Microsoft loses showdown in Houston(OT)

2003-01-22 Thread Ben Leslie
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> the story has been removed
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> This is a "must read."
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> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030122/tc_
> usatoday/4798893


Umm, works for me. (Note, URL is spread over two lines.)

Benno

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Re: [SLUG] Microsoft loses showdown in Houston(OT)

2003-01-22 Thread mark . crisp

the story has been removed

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This is a "must read."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030122/tc_
usatoday/4798893

Microsoft loses showdown in Houston

Byron Acohido USA TODAY

HOUSTON -- The people who run this city recently heard a familiar
pitch
  from Microsoft: Sign up for a multiyear, $12 million software
licensing  plan or face an audit exposing the city's use of software
it
hadn't  paid for.

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