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[Paul Howarth]

kishore chalakkal wrote:
> (UN)justice of microsoft:
> 
> In a little state of India (kerala) microsoft made a contract 3 years 
> ago with the education dept. to use MS products in schools, obviuosly 
> without the permission to copy software. Both Win e Linux were in 
> curriculum. Following the contract, the govt gave training to teachers 
> in win ( and being a poor state, copied the software.) MS was silent of 
> this well known fact till the govt. kicked out linux from schools. Now 
> they are facing a case from MS. but the whole infrastructure is in win. 
> Poor guys...  (source: www.deepika.com)

Where's the injustice here? Software was copied in violation of the 
license terms and the consequences are now being faced. If the MS 
software couldn't be afforded legally, it shouldn't have been selected 
in the first place.

Paul.