On Tuesday 29 June 2004 11:50 pm, Lanman wrote:
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-On another cheery note, I'm working on a project with a major PC
-retailer here in Montreal now to start selling PC's only with Mandrake
-Linux installed. Microsoft-based systems will be optional, but not
-reccommended! Is that sweet or what?
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:32 am, M.Schild wrote:
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- What I don't understand is why there isn't a backlash from cities around
- the world? I mean, if I was the mayor/gov. of a city and saw MS giving 60
- percent discounts to another place, you can be sure I'd be demanding the
- same for my fair
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:32 am, M.Schild wrote:
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- What I don't understand is why there isn't a backlash from cities around
- the world? I mean, if I was the mayor/gov. of a city and saw MS giving 60
- percent discounts to another place, you can be sure I'd be demanding
Then again, for that kind of job, they will probably make a cut down
simplified install of mdk, so it might not make any difference to us at
all. :-(
I heard the mayor of Paris was considering Linux because his collegue of
Munich has already gone that way
Maryse
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 02:28 am, franki wrote:
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:32 am, M.Schild wrote:
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- What I don't understand is why there isn't a backlash from cities
around - the world? I mean, if I was the mayor/gov. of a city and saw
MS giving 60 - percent
From: M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/06/29 Tue AM 03:07:21 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux
On the news today they said Microsoft offered the town of Paris a 60% rebate.
The story doesn´t say whether Paris is going to drop the idea of switching
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 20:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2004/06/29 Tue AM 03:07:21 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux
On the news today they said Microsoft offered the town of Paris a 60% rebate.
The story doesn
That was tongue in cheek right? Just in case it was not MS has a 80% +
margin on Windows and Office so yeah, they are a bit over priced. At 60%
kickback MS still makes money.
They get away with itso far
Maryse
Want to buy your Pack or
Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 09:09, M.Schild napisa:
I just heard that Microsoft has offered a HUGE rebate to the town of Paris
which is in the process of switching to Linux.
Maryse
It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or maybe
Paris only) in gov. administration all
It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or maybe
Paris only) in gov. administration all computers MUST run on open source
systems and programs...
Never heard about that. So far, the local administration here (back of beyond
of France) is still running Windows.
Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 14:27, M.Schild napisa:
It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or
maybe Paris only) in gov. administration all computers MUST run on open
source systems and programs...
Never heard about that. So far, the local administration here (back
On Monday 28 June 2004 07:59 am, Cezary Morga wrote:
Dnia pon 28. czerwca 2004 14:27, M.Schild napisa:
It won't help them :) I've read somewhere that in all the France (or
maybe Paris only) in gov. administration all computers MUST run on open
source systems and programs...
Never
Try looking at the Mandrake home page. Its under the news part. (June 18th 2004)
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