Stung by BSA: Council snubs Microsoft by switching to open-source software

Posted by tadelste on Jan 22, 2006 6:24 AM EDT
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Three years ago, the council paid Microsoft R3 million in an out-of-court settlement. The company had demanded R8 million from the metro for the council's computers to be granted full compliance status. As many as 1 000 of the council's computers had been found to be unlicenced. No licence fees will have to be paid for the new programmes.

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