M$ charges a premium. Schools get screwed even if they receive DONATED computers if they have M$ on them. Many schools are also on a tight and shrinking budget. Why oh WHY have them waste money on M$ software when they could do everything they really need to do on NON-M$ software? They could receive old computer donations and they would gain new, useful cheap life with linux or other freeos on them. They could still do wordprocessing, web browsing/research, plus a LOT more for pennies instead of hundreds and even thousands of dollars plus the threat from visits by jack-booted M$ license thugs. The school could buy ONE boxed distro and stick it on as many computers, new or used, as they wish. The saved money could then go into supplies like up-to-date books! The students wouldn't start out with an M$ brainwashing that makes most people think that PC = M$ (no it does NOT!). The school wouldn't be helping to feed a CLEARLY illegal monopoly (the courts ALL agree on the illegality here) with future braindeads...the students would actually know in their guts that there IS more computers, the internet, technology than M$. That is a good thing(tm).
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 04:17 pm, Harm Bathoorn wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2002 22:10, you wrote: > > Alright let me ask you this, are your kids going to grow up to work > > in the IT field? Are they going to be programmers or system > > administrators or network engineers? If not then what does it > > matter what OS is used in their schools? If they grow up to be > > doctors or lawyers or singers or social workers where is the > > relevance of OS concerned? > > Let's do a relay here:) > > My children are: 6, 8 and (almost)12 and thankfully I don't have a > clue what they are going to be or I want them to be. I just want them > to have every oportunity they can get. -Freedom of choice!- and not a > disguised straightjacket which M$windows and a lot more in modern > society is. > > And of course my children can boot and work Linux, they take to that > easier than I did and I saw to it that they would. Lucky them! > But there are more kids out there who need a hand.
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