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- ileftfark, on 11/13/2008, -2/+107Microsoft simply thought they were helping the contractor obtain the rights to his murdered father's fortune.
- StigNordas, on 11/13/2008, -6/+58That's pretty dirty, but corruption seems to be the norm in Nigeria.
- depro9, on 11/13/2008, -5/+40Even Microsoft is vulnerable to Nigerian scammers.
- betasp, on 11/13/2008, -4/+36Nope, paid them $399,998.
- atomicwedgie, on 11/13/2008, -4/+31"Hansen emphasized that studies have shown that the Windows platform often costs the same as or less than Linux when the total cost of ownership is considered." Riiiiiiiiigggggghhhhhtttt Next on the agenda is helping Naruma Unbuntunavinu get his government funds into my personal bank account.
- lead2thehead, on 11/13/2008, -4/+27Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kola Olawuyi [kolaolawyui@fakedomain.com]
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL
Greetings, friend. I am Mr. Kola Olawuyi from Bank of Nigeria. I am desperately looking for person to assist me in this confidential business. I recently inherit $400,000 from Microsoft, but have no way to transfer money to Nigeria. If you give me your bank account number to help with the transfer of funds, I give you 10% cut of money. Awaiting your urgent reply via my email address.
Thanks and regards.
Mr. Kola Olawuyi - d0nkeym0nkey, on 11/13/2008, -5/+27Of course, a large corporation will only tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -4/+26I hear Africa is a big country
- ohplease, on 11/13/2008, -5/+26
I honestly don't care whether the scam letters being sent to me were written in Evolution or Outlook Express. - Greengoo, on 11/13/2008, -1/+21The second I read "Nigeria" I stopped reading and started looking for this comment.
- Wakuko, on 11/13/2008, -5/+22Denied it??? Nooooooo
As if they would acknowledge it! - Dinsdale77, on 11/13/2008, -16/+31Because what Microsoft has isn't enough, they also need that tiny amount of the market that is using superior, open source operating systems. Greeeeeeedddddd.
- ersnyder, on 11/13/2008, -0/+15I can see Russia from my house in Seattle.
- biffsocko, on 11/13/2008, -1/+15I worked for a very large insurance company. When the company I worked for decided to try Linux, Microsoft threatend to stop purchasing insurance from us. Since they were such a large customer, our senior executives decided not to pursue Linux further.
- thePTS, on 11/13/2008, -1/+14Now now, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
"that linux is a superior os to windows is quite a stretch."
agreed.
"More secure? Debatable"
Heh. this is not really debatable, my good fellow. What is debatable, is that linux is more secure because Windows is used by far more, and far less tech-savvy, people. Maybe that's what you meant?
"Better software support? No"
Considerably better software suite, yes. Linux not only supports a huge portion of Windows' software suite, but it has the worlds biggest freeware suite at it's disposal, one click or one commandline away. The same goes for free, unlimited upgrades. Superior. I'm sorry.
"Better "tech support"? Not a snowball's chance in hell."
Considerably better tech support. Linux still has a viable commandline, and almost everything is configured in human-readable textfiles. Because of this, almost every error or every parameter is googleable, and every issue solution is usually one Google away.
The neutral truth is - and I say this as a longtime Windows user - is that they both have their uses, and to limit yourself to one of them, especially if you have purchased the one that costs money, is a pretty bad idea. - orangederange, on 11/13/2008, -4/+16I think maybe Microsoft lost the $400,000 rather in a 419?
- RoboDonut, on 11/13/2008, -0/+9>Name them.
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.o ... - 4321234, on 11/13/2008, -0/+9http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/10/31/an-open-letter ...
- 4321234, on 11/13/2008, -0/+7Mandriva was negotiating with Nigeria to provide classmate pcs with Mandriva Linux pre-installed. Microsoft got into the act and there was two choices for Nigeria. They chose Linux. The machines were delivered and Mandriva was paid. Then Microsoft offered $400,000 to the contractor to remove Linux and install Windows. This was back in 2007.
- aigulf, on 11/13/2008, -3/+10To be fair, it's not about taking the 1% market share, it's about making sure that 1% doesn't grow.
But, yeah, it's all about maximizing sales...that's what businesses do. Their methods are detestable, but I don't think anyone should be surprised by what they're trying to do. - benologist, on 11/13/2008, -4/+11If you think companies offering governments / other companies incentives to use their products is not normal outside of Nigeria you're hugely mistaken.
What do you think the educational discounts on MacBooks, Microsoft Office etc are?
Also, rtfa?
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Although a joint marketing agreement was drafted to document the best practices for using technology in education, it was never executed, said Thomas Hansen, regional manager for Microsoft West, East and Central Africa. It became clear, he added, that one customer wanted a Linux OS.
"As such, the joint marketing agreement became irrelevant; no such marketing agreement was ever agreed to, and no money was ever spent," he said. - billessig, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6Nope. Not really.
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -8/+14They are LYING!
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -3/+9Actually Steve Ballmer contacted the contractor and told them that a relative had passed away and he needed to move a large amount of money out of the US. For the contractor's help in the matter he would receive $400,000.
- thePTS, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6I don't know if I should digg you for being an Amiga fan or to bury you for being a fool :F
- tushyd, on 11/13/2008, -0/+6Cross out Africa and replace with "The World"
- greentimes, on 11/13/2008, -1/+6woah bro - why must every thread about anything linux and windows dissolve into petty adolescence.
Go LINUX!! woot! - 4321234, on 11/13/2008, -0/+5Maybe Mandriva would have an easier time setting up a Mandriva OS computer that you would.
- ultrafez, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4I like how you when you were trying to think of a random Nigerian name, the word "ubuntu" obviously came into your head
- awtripp, on 11/13/2008, -3/+7Business and Politics go hand-in-hand.
- jsmithers, on 11/13/2008, -23/+27IN CASE anyone needs this spelled out to them -
OF COURSE they'll deny it. G.W. Bush denies lots of things too, as does Cheney, as did Palin and McCain.
Evil and "wrongdoers" always do deny things. They don't just commit evil and go "Yeah, hello! It was me! Sure, you got me!".
Many of Microsoft's practices are and have been evil. Yes, real, true evil. Genuine evil. People need to see them for what they are.
That they make ***** software too is just the "icing" on the cake.
Go on fanboys, dig me down because you can't handle the truth. - mrsteveman1, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4I'm not sure how a desire to install linux somehow obviates angering the person in the past "hey you screwed my sister but we can set that aside, its linux time!".
In fact im not sure why they have anything to do with each other.
Or: "Hey you helped me install linux, would you like to partake of my sisters female charms?" - mikedoth, on 11/13/2008, -1/+5This is amusing. So does this mean we'll start seeing more spammers using Windows boxes?
- hmlb, on 11/13/2008, -2/+6Denies it?? Completely the opposite, they just said there was an agreement but it just doesn't go on because of the end user (the contractor) needs.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/13/2008, -1/+5Linux, or rather most of the distributions of it, are more secure than the bastard NT/chicagoesque implementations of Windows we have been using since ~2001 because they don't have flawed services running on open ports that the user doesn't know about, and because they don't have an architecturally flawed service model.
There is a substantially larger commercial desktop software market on the windows platform, to the point that commercial desktop software on Linux is nearly insignificant in comparison. This is both as a result of high quality backward compatibility in windows and the size of windows deployment worldwide, developers want to be on the platform. Free alternatives tend to be just that, "the free one", and sometimes they are very poor.
You can pay for tech support on either platform, that has been the case for a long time. The sole difference is, windows has some issues with security and as i said, some flaws in architecture that cause problems, and most linux distros make certain use cases difficult because the attention to detail is not there. So considering these things, Windows requires tech support because of things Microsoft screwed up, and Linux tends to require tech support for things that aren't quite ready for prime time or things that make it difficult to step outside the bounds of "just works", like some video capture cards, some printers, configuring things beyond the simplistic panels that are sometimes present in linux distros. The reasons for these problems on either platform don't matter as much as the fact that they are problems, and they tend to require tech support, paid or otherwise, for people to overcome them.
I will however point out that the performance argument is rapidly shifting, there have been some benchmarks done recently that show Ubuntu has been getting slower for some reason, and we already know Vista is slower in certain ways than XP. - falstaff, on 11/13/2008, -1/+5Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both tried (and succeeded) paying cash for studios using their products.
benologist's educational discounts are a great example. In fact, every sale, rebate or discount can be considered the exact same thing, just on a much smaller scale.
You got a rebate on your video card? OMG, ATI's buying you off!!!1.
Buried. - TheZorch, on 11/13/2008, -6/+10Excuse me *****, but these are same ***** people who all but destroyed the OLPC because they couldn't stand it that it was Linux and not Windows. Tell us another one! Microsoft has always go out of its way to get in the way of Linux being implemented anywhere on a large scale and used every dirty trick in the book that legal and borderline legal to do it. So, MS tard, show me an example of Microsoft not doing something like this and maybe we'll respect your argument but since there isn't any evidence against them doing this but overwhelming evidence of them doing this sort of thing again and again and again you have no leg to stand on. Fool!
- fluxion, on 11/13/2008, -0/+4windows makes a killing on support contracts. its not like top-tier support is a freebie they give to all windows users. you pay with windows just like you would for similar linux support contracts.
their argument, at least the version i bothered to read way back when, was something along the lines of cost to train users to use linux, plus cost to train in-house linux support people etc etc. - trotsky311, on 11/13/2008, -4/+7microsoft has fanboys? where are they both hiding?
- Kerrigore, on 11/13/2008, -2/+5In the eyes of the law, innocent until proven guilty.
In the eyes of the public, guilty until proven innocent. - inactive, on 11/13/2008, -3/+6Yeah and Nigerian sources are always soooo truthful.
- acegi, on 11/13/2008, -2/+5Dear Mr. David Browne
I have a proposition for you. - inactive, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3 You need help installing LINUX!? Surely you jest!
- ultraseamus, on 11/13/2008, -1/+4Lol, what on earth is that supposed to mean, that you are more popular than me on Digg? Oh no, my world is growing dark, all meaning is fading away. You good sir, are a douche. And just because I think it is probably the best way to push your buttons, you are also clearly an apple fanboy. :)
- NJank, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3or... maybe they did that to make you think that they didn't because they wouldn't have if they did.
- stasis88, on 11/13/2008, -0/+3WOW DIGG is digging its own grave, Im so sick of the BS on here, nobody can have a decent discussion, just bla bla evil bla bla iphone bla bla dork with no life bla bla bla. Is there not ANYONE here with ANYTHING intelligent or insightful to say? Is the entire Digg user base teenagers that just whine about everything and make useless, senseless and down right idiotic comments???????????
- joe7845, on 11/13/2008, -1/+4You don't get it. Microsoft doesn't care about Nigeria going OSS. They care about the rest of the governments in the world following suit.
See:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4602325.stm - Kerrigore, on 11/13/2008, -2/+5The problem is that it's Microsoft.
- inactive, on 11/13/2008, -1/+4Was he a prince? If so, tell him I want my money back.
- wolferz, on 11/14/2008, -0/+2Wow! You're not vindictive at all.
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