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How a Microsoft Piracy Threat Almost Led Us to Open Source… Almost!

“Once upon a time there was a ‘school’ that used predominantly
Microsoft software. This ‘school’ used PCs with Windows Servers and
Windows XPs. The fact that this was a poor ‘school’ meant that they
couldn’t afford MS Office. They wanted to, but they couldn’t. So
they installed the academic licences of StarOffice 7. All was good
in the world.

“Around that time, a new technology entered the world; the
wi-fi. And soon, students began to connect their laptops to the
‘school’ wi-fi connection. All was good in this world too…”


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