On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 14:05 +0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 12:33, Alex Hudson wrote:
The subject is possibly a little tongue in cheek; their effort
appears
so far to consist of attempting to fleece some Sri Lankans of $1755
worth of XP licences (so that they can use the laptops that were
donated
to them by IBM, value probably ~$12000 or so).
The very next posting, however, notes that Microsoft had second
thoughts
(presumably visions of foot-in-mouth and egg-on-face), and have now
donated
the licenses.
So they did.
Not totally surprising, as you note ;)