Microsoft's attempt to "lock-in" future generations spotted for the self-servingact it is !

Microsoft were planning to "donate" their software to a load of schools,
thus "entrapping" future generations into it's software monopoly.
A typical self-serving action on Mictosoft's part.
Red Hat was on the ball and had a better idea !   ;-)

MS/DOJ - RED HAT OFFERS OPEN-SOURCE OPTION ON SETTLEMENT

Posted November 20, 2001 04:12 Pacific Time

NEW YORK - Red Hat jumped into the Microsoft
class-action suits settlement fray Tuesday, offering
to provide open-source software to every school
district in the United States free of charge. Red Hat
encouraged Microsoft to redirect the money it plans to
spend on its own software -- estimated at more than
US$500 million -- into purchasing additional hardware.

Microsoft said earlier Tuesday that it had agreed to
settle the 100-plus class action suits accusing it of
using its desktop operating system software monopoly
to charge users inflated prices. Under terms of the
deal, Microsoft would supply computers and its own
software to thousands of the U.S.'s poorest schools


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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/20/011120hnredhatoffer.xml?1121weam