3 Million less than the IBM/Suse deal.
Reuters:
Media have reported that Microsoft's offer of about 27.3 million euros ($32.3 million) had been almost three million euros below that of the Linux competitor, but the city had still chosen Linux for strategic reasons.
[link|http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Q5ZURS1GQNHAECRBAEOCFFA?type=technologyNews&storyID=2837894|Microsoft tried to cut a deal]
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Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"