Microsoft Philanthropy
Microsoft donates Windows licenses to schools.
Windows has already been made, so donating licenses costs almost nothing.
Microsoft gets:
1. tax breaks for the full market price of the licenses.
2. good publicity for its generous donation.
3. mindshare, by locking in a whole generation of students into Windows.
4. to fend off FOSS by positioning itself as the de facto standard.
#freesoftware #linux #microsoft #business #businessstrategy #tech #education #philanthropy
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