Namibian volunteer group rejects donated Microsoft software as too costly
Howard Lake | 8 November 2002 | News
SchoolNet Namibia argues that free is not always best, particularly if it comes with an unexpected price tag.
SchoolNet Namibia’s founding executive director Joris Komen has written a forceful open letter to Microsoft arguing that the company’s offer of donated software will actually cost the voluntary organisation “more than $24,000.”
This is due to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreements which means that “they are effectively limited to lower quality PC technologies.”
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Find out more about the argument and read the open letter in “Namibia spurns ‘costly’ Microsoft donation” by Alistair Otter at South Africa-based ITWeb.
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