Comments on: Mississippi Paid up to $60 Million in Vouchers After Microsoft’s Violations of the Law http://techrights.org/2009/07/26/mississippi-msft-settlement-2009/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Yuhong Bao http://techrights.org/2009/07/26/mississippi-msft-settlement-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-71585 Yuhong Bao Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:00:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=15528#comment-71585 "At least it is not redeemable as software only. Such compensation would only help Microsoft rather than penalise." If MS was competing with proprietary software, the coupon being only redeemable as software would be OK, but MS is competing with free software, which has no licensing costs, which makes this kind of coupons unnecessary. Shades of RAND, don't you think? And Apple is not an excuse because other than upgrades Mac OS X is usually bought bundled with hardware. “At least it is not redeemable as software only. Such compensation would only help Microsoft rather than penalise.”
If MS was competing with proprietary software, the coupon being only redeemable as software would be OK, but MS is competing with free software, which has no licensing costs, which makes this kind of coupons unnecessary. Shades of RAND, don’t you think? And Apple is not an excuse because other than upgrades Mac OS X is usually bought bundled with hardware.

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