__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 12 January 2007 17:01 \__
> "The Tennessee Department of Education will distribute $15,315,586.25
> in software vouchers to local school systems as a result of a
> settlement in a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation"
>
> "Local administrators may use software vouchers for current or future
> Microsoft operating system software"
>
> http://www.state.tn.us/education/news/nr/2006/12_18_06.shtml
Microsoft was found guilty. Its payment is admission of this (merely an
attempt to escape prosection). Why the heck should more software be acquired
from the criminal? Why does this recur? It's outrageous.
The scenario is intended to end up with jailed executives, not a settlement
that shackles even /more/ people, especially now that software is made which
is more Draconian than ever before.
Parables involving drug dealers spring to mind.
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