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A comment on South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux. Parent comment

Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by dgellow on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:39AM (#22346357)
It's a quite common way to negotiate lower licenses fees.
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Re:South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux by guidedlight on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:42AM (#22346370)
Bingo. I've seen this strategy time and time again.

It's part of the reason Microsoft is playing to their strength with Office 365, it's almost impossible to replace at this point.

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