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| Time: 09:28 EST/14:28 GMT | News Source: InfoWorld | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Governments and multinational companies should take note of Microsoft Corp.'s willingness to bend on prices to keep key accounts for its Windows operating system from wandering into the open-source Linux camp.
The German Interior Ministry has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to receive favorable conditions for both buying and leasing the U.S. company's software products, the ministry said Thursday in a statement.
The agreement will save federal, state and local governments "much money," Interior Minister Otto Schily said in the statement.
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| #1 By 135 (208.50.204.91) at 4/12/2003 6:02:00 PM |
| I guess Linux didn't win out, eh? |
| #2 By 665 (64.126.91.172) at 4/12/2003 6:56:12 PM |
| Shhh, soda, some people in here are still in denial. |
| #3 By 12071 (203.217.70.238) at 4/12/2003 9:41:09 PM |
| #1 As #3 said, this is exactly why competition is good, any kind of competition. What's the chance of Microsoft "willingly bending on prices" if the German government wasn't looking at Linux? Oooh none! Rather than being a blind Microsoft zealot, realise that although Linux is no immediate threat to Microsoft, rather a much more immediate threat to someone like Sun, it's good for everyone that it is around. |
| #4 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 4/12/2003 10:59:13 PM |
| These "good prices" that microsoft had to "bend" into... are no better than what is already available to gov here in the states. Germans are just a bit gullible. |
| #5 By 61 (65.32.171.144) at 4/13/2003 12:09:42 AM |
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Exactly...
If the Germans are considering something different that means that they feel Microsoft is offering enough compared to the price they pay as opposed to using Linux. Although, I don't get what all the hype is with Linux.... why not just use FreeBSD? It's been around, why all of a sudden is it changing since Linux is here? |
| #6 By 12071 (203.185.215.149) at 4/13/2003 2:02:53 AM |
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#6 There are probably many reasons for why Linux it more popular than *BSD at the moment. I can't give you a great insight into it but I would say that the central issue is over the license used. The BSD license is really a "here you go, do whatever you like with this, just mention the fact you used this code" type of license, which is exactly why a lot of developers like it and also why many don't like it. And you can see this by the fact that the BSD and the Linux camps don't get along too well.
The developers for Linux applications are prepared to give their code away for free but in such a way that if someone uses that code and enhances it then they should give those enhancements away for free so that everyone benefits. Regardless of wether you argee with this or not, or any of the Microsoft zealots, this is what they believe in. They don't want to write code and then have some company go off and steal their code without giving anything back. At the moment, due to those beliefs or thought processes, we have a lot more Linux developers than we do FreeBSD developers, which is why Linux is the more popular of the two. |
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