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Computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... onomyId=17]Microsoft issues blanket licence to Russian NGOs

Why is this a "yay!"? It seems that the Russian government has been seizing the computers of NGOs that oppose it on the pretext that they're running pirated Microsoft software. Microsoft just torpedoed that particular excuse to crack down on dissent.

(One roadblock to true democracy removed, far too many to go...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Awesome! Never thought that they'd do something like that. (^_^)

Proving that not everyone in a position of responsibility at Microsoft is as corrupt and heartless as they are often portrayed.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy