--Richard Stallman

ANIVAR reports that a lot of Indian outlets (papers, magazines and everything) have taken note of the Boycott Novell protest [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and are now covering this widely all across the nation. But just around the same time that the 'Open' University is named and slammed for promoting non-Open and non-Free software, the same thing happens in India, where Microsoft is trying to catch children while they are young. The amazing thing is that seniors permit this to happen.

The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) and Microsoft Corporation, U.S., will partner in curriculum development programmes, students’ projects, continuing education, research and development.

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Microsoft will offer many products such as Visual Studio 2008, Professional Edition, Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition and also platform resources such as SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition, SQL Server Express Windows Server and Standard Edition (both 2003 and 2008) for every technically-inclined student.

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5. Boosting Windows Vista Sales Using AIDS
6. “Let Them Eat Vista...”
7. Mysterious New Moves in the Gates Foundation
8. Microsoft Carries on Dumping to Make Its Products a 'Standard'
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10. Microsoft Must Be Absolutely Terrified
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