Linux <http://linux.slashdot.org/>: Nigerian Government Nixes
Microsoft's Mandriva Block
<http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1540206>
*Posted by Zonk <http://slashdot.org/%7EZonk/> on Friday November 09,
@11:23AM*
*from the *money-well-spent* dept.*
Mandriva <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=147>
An anonymous reader writes /"After trying to bribe a local supplier with
a $400,000 marketing contract, Microsoft has still apparently lost out
in trying to woo Nigeria's government
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=6124>
to use Windows over Linux. Microsoft threw the money at the supplier
after it chose Mandriva Linux for 17,000 laptops for school children
across Nigeria. The supplier took the bait and agreed to wipe Mandriva
off the machines, but now Nigeria's government has stepped in to stop
the dirty deal."/
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