Micro$oft values Windows at $1

BBC is reporting that Microsoft is charging Windows used in their government for $1 per copy. It's rather cheap right? Consider that they are selling the originals for a couple of hundred bucks. Is that just pure rip off? Or just a strategy to get folks hooked on Windows and charge them later? You tell me...

Ministers said Microsoft had agreed an amnesty under which a token sum of one dollar will be paid for every computer found to be using illegal software.
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"Microsoft is being realistic," Indonesia's information minister, Sofyan Djalil, was quoted as saying in the Jakarta Post newspaper.

"They can't force developing countries like us to solely use legal software since we can't afford it. They want us to gradually reduce our use of it."