When did Microsoft get taxing power like the IRS?
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| Floating around the office last week I took an inventory, we have 12
| machines there, 5 of them running Linux. However I have 12 Windows
| Licences.
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| [...]
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| Even the IRS isn't as nasty, at least the IRS's tax rate isn't 40%
| in most cases. That is what that figure comes out to when youf
| igure the prices of the 5 machines minus 300 dollars per machine.
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http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=161
Related:
Why Dell and other major hardware vendors won't do desktop Linux
preinstallation
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| It's quite likely that pressure from Microsoft and other proprietary
| software vendors contributes to the absence of open source software
| in OEM Windows installations.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070228-8941.html
Dell cocks a deaf ear to Linux at its online listening post
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| The first was that senior personnel at Dell demanded keys to the
| darkened rooms that computer companies now maintain for executives
| suffering from panic attacks. These rooms are specially hardened
| to resist missives from Steve Ballmer, the combative CEO of
| Microsoft, who takes a dim view of open-source software.
|
| [...]
|
| So now we know the value of crap. You read it here first.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2025848,00.html
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