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____/ Matt on Monday 14 Dec 2009 14:01 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Free Software for All Russian Schools in Jeopardy
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>> | [The contract for the supply of licensed
>> | software in schools during 2007-2009 was
>> | the system integrator "Compulink".
>> | Competition Rosobrazovanie numbered NP-17
>> | meant the supply of 60 thousand Russian
>> | schools (650-700 thousand computers)
>> | license software package in 2007-2009. The
>> | package includes: operating system Windows
>> | XP, Microsoft Office, dictionary Abbyy
>> | Lingvo 12, anti-virus software Kaspersky
>> | Work Space Security, Adobe Photoshop CS3
>> | and more. A source at the Federal Agency of
>> | Education knows that Microsoft has agreed
>> | to license the Windows on all PCs for about
>> | $ 20 million (about $ 30 per computer).]
>> `----
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>> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/free-software-for-all-russian-schools.html
>
>> | 5. Create a dangerous precedent - if here, why not in the US?
>
>
> Oh no, MS doesn't have to worry about Linux. After all, Linux is only
> on one percent of desktops.
Maybe in the US. Maybe. In Brazil it's around 10% for example.
> But hmmm ... a billion and a half computers at $30 each, with computers
> replaced every five years.
>
> That would be $9 billion per year spent on basic software for the whole
> world, and not all of it goes to MS.
>
> MS is used to taking in six times that much.
Windows revenue down 40% in the last quarter. Windows @ $5 apiece on netbooks and Linux still hovers at 33%
(and climbing).
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