[ubuntu-uk] Ballmer screws over Nigerian schoolkids

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Mark,

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:57 +0000, Mark Harrison wrote:
> In fact, the person who's complaining in this article is the guy who 
> came in second in a procurement round, and he's throwing mud around and 
> hoping some of it sticks.

I see where you coming from but that's not how I read the article:

"So we closed the deal, we got the order, we qualified the software, e
got the machine shipped. In other word, we did our job. I understand the
machine are being delivered right now.

And then, today, we hear from the customer a totally different story:
“we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace
it by Windows afterward.”"

Maybe I'm missing something here but surely if they took delivery and
paid then he hasn't "lost" a procurement round.

Just my tuppence.

Cheers,

Dougie Richardson