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Friday, May 16, 2003 John Lettice of The Register writes about the MS 'slush' fund provides big discounts to stop Linux. Some very interesting things here: Register open source contacts have insisted for some years now that Microsoft's government and large accounts sales teams have special dispensation - on the highest authority - to block open source deployments at any price; the leaked emails would therefore appear to confirm that they are right. Microsoft is particularly interested in winning and keeping control of UK government and public sector IT systems, and this has bizarre consequences for would-be insurgents. Public sector and large account IT staff who get the green light for test open source deployments keep very quiet about it indeed, even to the extent of begging the press not to mention it until they're sure full-scale deployments are happening, and can't easily be cancelled. For some reason they seem to think large Microsoft SWAT teams will descend on their superiors, bad-mouthing them and waving vast discounts. We've no idea where they could have got this impression from. posted by David | 5/16/2003 12:45:00 PM |
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