IP: RE: Microsoft proposed settlement

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Rohan Amin" <rohana () seas upenn edu>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: RE: Microsoft proposed settlement
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:09:56 -0500
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> After hearing of Microsoft's proposal, Redhat introduced one of their own:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_usschools.html
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>
> RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Nov. 20, 2001-Red Hat, Inc.
> (Nasdaq:RHAT - news) today proposed an alternative to the settlement
> announced today of the class-action lawsuit against Microsoft. Red Hat
> offered to provide open-source software to every school district in the
> United States free of charge, encouraging Microsoft to redirect the money it
> would have spent on software into purchasing more hardware for the 14,000
> poorest school districts. Under the Red Hat proposal, by removing
> Microsoft's higher-priced software from the settlement equation, Microsoft
> could provide the school districts with many more computers--greatly
> extending the benefits Microsoft seeks to provide school districts with
> their proposed settlement.
>
> ...


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