Israel to end licensing agreement with Microsoft

Israel to end licensing agreement with Microsoft
August 21, 2018
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ensing-agreement-with-microsoft-idUSKCN1L61DX

 

Absolutely. Microsoft and their den of new bandits don't meet many of us user's needs either anymore.

It will be celebration time when more and more folks on large scale like this abandon that greed and spy racket.

 

+1

 

Easter I'd like to see that in my lifetime. Another player, the 3letters won't let this happen. Unless they can implement backdoors in all distros.

 

I understand. Let's see what shakes out, because the more and more large windfall potentials who pull away from them on that basis alone may begin to raise some alarm, especially if it just happens to cascade concurrently somehow.

 

Guys, when you have a contract to pay $27 million a year to MS, you can negotiate with them over the TOC, just like the Israeli government is doing.

 

You can't negotiate with the most powerful military in the world. You obey

 

Not surprised. They're not going to make an easy sale there.
And cloud for governments, of all things.
Mrk