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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Greetings from Quito. I took the liberty to follow up Augusta Molnars </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">message: Microsoft Donations: Roses with Thorns?, and I received the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">following answer (below),  through Microsoft Ecuador.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Yours</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Klaus Stoll</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">From: Martha Choe [</span></font><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>mailto:Martha.Choe@gatesfoundation.org]</u></span></font><font
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:45 PM</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Subject: FW: OAXACA, MEXICO </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">In response to your email of January 6th, it is not the foundation's</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">policy that only Microsoft products can be used on computers purchased</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">with grant funds provided by the foundation in support of public access to</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">the Internet in Mexican public librarires. The foundation and Microsoft</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">are separate, legally distinct entities. The foundation has provided the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">grant funds to purchase the hardware/computers, and Microsoft has</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">partnered in the project by donating software, but it is our understanding</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">that the owners/users of the computers are free to utilize other software,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">as they decide is appropriate. I recommend that organizations or</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">individuals that have further questions about the system configuration of</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">the Mexican library computers purchased with foundation grant funds</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">contact the grantee, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y Las Artes,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">directly. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Thank you,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Martha Choe</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">-----Original Message-----</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">From: </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>owner-gkd@milhouse.edc.org</u></span></font><font
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">On Behalf Of Augusta Molnar Sent: 08 December 2005 02:56 To:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#008000"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>gkd@milhouse.edc.org</u></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> Subject:
[GKD] Microsoft Donations: Roses with</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Thorns?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Dear GKD Members,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I am writing from Oaxaca, Mexico where I am visiting communities in the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">highlands. They have been beneficiaries of a very cool project financed in</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">part by the Gates foundation to install a wireless connection and a set of</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">computers for the schools. We are working on a network in the Latin</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">America region for communities for which we use by preference FireFox as</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">our browser. We suggested they try this browser as Explorer was causing</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">problems, and discovered to our surprise that the Gates foundation "gift"</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">comes with tags.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The computer network does not allow any of the users of the donated</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">computers to install any software not owned by Microsoft, even any open</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">source software. The network within which the computers reside will not</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">allow any individual computers to download software to install, ostensibly</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">to prevent viruses and incompatible software from jeopardizing the</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Microsoft system.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">These are computers installed for educational purposes in a number of</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">telecenters in the public libraries in Mexico for all the young students</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">preparing for a global world. These computers are therefore their only</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">affordable access to the Internet and to learning about computers and</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">programs. A significant number of them will leave this town to work at</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">least part of their life elsewhere in Mexico or in the U.S. Their work and</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">career opportunities will depend upon their skills and preparedness.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I am reminded of my youth, working in the vicinity of USAID programs which</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">only purchased American-made cars shipped to remote corners of Asia for</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">irrigation projects, etc., because the tied money only allowed US bids.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">(Ever try to blow up a pneumatic truck tire with a bicycle pump in a small</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">town in Asia? )</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Is this standard Gates foundation policies?????? Is this type of tag</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">allowed??</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Interested to hear from those of you who are more knowledgeable on this</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">point.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Augusta Molnar</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Director, Community and Markets Program</span></font></div>
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