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[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 14 February 2005 06:38, Paul Howarth wrote:
>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.

Well, IMNSHO, M$ lost their chance to squawk in court forever with 
regard to this particular public agency, when they did not squawk the 
first time they became aware of the copying going on.  Here, we would 
call it entrapment.


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