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Stephen Downes

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Software giant Microsoft is embarking on a campaign to crack down on what it calls software piracy in the school system. What they should be asking is whether it makes sense for a school board to have to pay $150 per teacher to allow them to read a document once a month or so? What I have always wondered is: why doesn't the document reader software come with the document? Now there's a market opportunity... By Damien Cave, Salon, July 10, 2001.

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