MS goes after schools

[Lincoln Peters]

On Wednesay, I gave a copy of that to one of the assistant principles at 
Rancho Cotate.  They now know that Microsoft's press release concerning 
donation is a pack of lies, although I can't be 100% sure if they'll believe 
me over Microsoft.

Speaking of donated computers and such, I finally found out on Wednesday 
that the computers that were piled in the Phoenix building are going to the 
middle schools (Creekside and Mountain Shadows).  I don't know what will 
become of them of them after that, although at the end of the day I saw our 
technician piling them into the back of a pickup truck.

Anyone here go to either of those middle schools or have a son or daughter 
that goes to either of those middle schools?  I don't know what's going to 
happen to those computers, but I want to be able to help ensure that they 
don't screw up.  I recently estimated the cost of their Windows NT domain at 
$200,000,000; enough to run an elementary school for a year!  And if they'd 
asked about Linux before signing the contract, they could have reduced that 
cost to $0!



>From: Lorie Obal <lobal at cds1.net>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: nblug <talk at nblug.org>
>Subject: MS goes after schools
>Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 19:08:57 -0700 (PDT)
>
>The linux community responds to a direct attack on the public schools from
>MS: http://www.seul.org/edu/acpe2002.html
>
>Time to donate those old Linux boxes - based on MS insistance original OS
>must always be kept on machine!
>
>-Lorie
>
>--
>Lorie Obal
>lobal at cds1.net
>Proudly e-mailed from open source software!
>



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