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Friday, November 9th, 2007

ComputerWorld UK: “Linux wins Nigerian school desktops back from Microsoft”

Interesting, very interesting… I love the comments over at Slashdot ;-)

URL: http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=6124

Now, however, a government agency funding 11,000 of the PCs has overruled the supplier. Nigeria’s Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) wants to keep Mandriva Linux on the Classmate PCs, said an official who identified himself as the programme manager for USPF’s Classmate PCs project.

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Mba-Uzoukwu wrote that Microsoft is still negotiating an agreement that would give TSC US$400,000 (£190,323) for marketing activities around the Classmate PCs when those computers are converted to Windows.