Re: [school-discuss] Shocking news about Microsoft's ability to kill Open Source

[Knut Yrvin <knuty@skolelinux.no>]

torsdag 30. oktober 2003, 21:10, skrev Tom Adelstein:
> I'm scheduled to speak at the Desktop Linux Consortium on November 10th
> at Boston University. My subject relates to Linux in State and Local
> Government, a subject about which I have some knowledge.
>
> This morning I discovered from a reliable source that we will not be
> invited back because Microsoft offered BU a Gold Partnership agreement
> and marketing money to never "do this again".

The EU has strict laws against this kind of slush-founded activity: 

http://www.iht.com/articles/96369.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30715.html

- Knut Yrvin