On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jason Guidry wrote: > sorry guys, I only sent this to tim earlier. read on below... > > Tim Holmes wrote: > >I completely agree. > > >Why is it permittied that M$ basically strong arms a vendor into > >installing Windows on a new computer, but an organization that freely > >gives away machines so today's youth can futher themselves by becoming > >familiar with technology, is out of the question. All because that > >computer uses a rival, competitor's OS. > > Hey guys, just to clarify, these guys were giving away 10 celeron CPUs > and 1 Xeon CPU per school and the school provided the rest (Mobo, mem, > case, etc) for a server and 10 X terminals using the K12's distro. > > Last week i think MS decided that they weren't confident about the > schools WINDOWS COMPUTERS and wanted an audit of as computers running > WINDOWS OS for pirated software. They said either perform and audit in > a month, give us half a million, or pay for _US_ (MS) to do an audit. > > just asking for a school to audit their software is not a bad thing. > schools need to follow the law. but it's (at a minimum) plain wrong to > demand $500,000 if they can't do it in a month. how do you spell > 'extortion'? > > it is supposed to be just a coincidence that this is the same isd that > is supposed to deploy linux soon (not by next month). ya know, if MS > had multi-user permissions in 95, 98 etc, maybe they wouldn't have to > worry about students installing pirated software on the computers. > > yes, I know, xp has multi user stuff...maybe that's what the .5 mil is for. > > maybe this is why my ISD didn't budge on this, they didn't want an audit. > >
that spelling certainly works for me! be damned if you or I could get away with anything like that and not get put in jail. -- daRcmaTTeR --------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed do what your wife told you to do the first time! Registered Linux User 182496 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:05pm up 1 day, 36 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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