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____/ Homer on Saturday 25 Jun 2011 10:28 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> ____/ Chris on Saturday 25 Jun 2011 09:27 : \____
>>> Am Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:09:44 +0100 schrieb Roy Schestowitz:
>
>>>> There's also this oldie from Romania where Microsoft banned a talk
>>>> about Ubuntu in some collage.
>>>
>>> Link, please?
>>
>> I've just spent 5 minutes trying to find the links. I gave up.
>
> [quote]
> "Then, they fight you"
>
> There's a CS/informatics competition for high school students being held
> this weekend in Cluj and it is combined with educational software
> presentations from software companies for informatics professors.
>
> I asked the organizers if our Free Software Group could hold a short
> session about the benefits of FOSS in education, with references to
> Ubuntu, Edubuntu and Kiwilinux and we were given a slot after the ones
> which had already been planned a while ago - those of Microsoft, Cisco
> and a local company that sells education software for Romanian schools.
>
> That was two days ago but yesterday we were notified that the Microsoft
> representative in charge with the education strategy had requested the
> organizers to pull the Ubuntu presentation because it is 'unfair
> competition' to hold such a presentation at an event sponsored by them.
> They are indeed co-sponsors but the conference is organized by the
> Ministry of Education and its local office, and is being held on the
> premises of a public University.
>
> It is sad to know they are resorting to this sort of coercing and that
> they have such influence over the educators but looking on the bright
> side of it, and that's how I perceived it after thinking a bit about it,
> THEY ARE SCARED :)
>
> We were also promised to be given the opportunity to present at a later
> date to a similar group of professors in June.
> [/quote]
>
> http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/05/then-they-fight-you.html
Yes, that's the one!
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