Bill Gates visits Germany to award "The Road Ahead" prize | Linux Today

Bill Gates visits Germany to award “The Road Ahead” prize

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 4, 1999

As a result, the prize-winning school gets a new Linux
network.

Thanks to Christian
Huettermann
for this link.

Bill Gates
went to a German school today to bestow his “The Road ahead” prize.
Along with the Gates visit, a German Microsoft dealer donated 12
PC´s to the school. According to the school’s headmaster, the
Linux company ID-Pro GmbH will now
take the Microsoft PC´s and install Linux and Star Office on
them — for free.

Read the
complete story on Linux.de
in German.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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