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Stephen Downes

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A Russian principal is found guilty of using unofficial Microsoft software and is fined $195. He makes $360 a month. Microsoft says it had nothing to do with prosecuting impoverished Russian educators, but the Russian government would not be enforcing compliance were it not for the lobbying of companies like Microsoft. We know that if the company didn't want people like Alexander Ponosov to be prosecuted, they wouldn'y be.

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