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This retarded class-action "settlement."
CommonSense:
quote:Originally posted by Kyle McD:
My schools starting to bring in a heafty load of iMacs and G4's for us to use instead -- my sysadmin is a bit of a MacFan. Poor Soul.lol. Whattya's think about that?
:confused:
I think the guy's not being paid enough!
Linux is wonderful and all, but subjecting little kids to it really is asking for trouble. Unless elementary schools are now teaching kids how to run servers and I somehow hadn't heard about it, I really don't think Linux is the smartest choice.
Windows is a pretty damn lousy choice -- well, because it's Windows, obviously. But also because of the fact that M$ really doesn't seem to give a shit about the fact that most school districts don't have money to burn on their ridiculously overpriced software licenses.
And the argument that "we should let kids learn on the platform they're most likely to use when they're out in the real world" is pure bullshit, too. Does anyone really think a fifth-grader using Windows ME today (because i doubt the average school has "upgraded" to XP yet) is going to have some magical insight into the prevailing operating system in use in 2011, when he/she enters the workforce? Yeah, I didn't think so either.
And I think Cabal is missing the point, above. Don't think for one second that Microsoft has ANY altruistic motivation behind donating machines and software to schools. This is a settlement that allows them to further their monopoly by shoving Windows down the throats of countless school districts, depriving them of a choice. Can they use the money to buy something else? Sure, but how likely is that when they're probably most inclined to believe Microsoft is a "great citizen" for showering them with all this money?
Finally, Apple got off its "take the higher ground" ass and said something about this shit in a public statement, though I personally don't think they were strident or angry enough.
actualfact:
quote:Originally posted by The Webmaster:
And I think Cabal is missing the point, above.
me too.
no one ever said donating computers was a bad idea. but this raises another question -- what's microsoft been doing for schools in the past?
machead:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by The Webmaster:
[QB]You know -- their pitiful attempt to pull the wool over the judge's eyes by tormenting poor schoolchildren and forcing them to use M$ crap.
The entire episode is a total sham.
So the government accuses Microsoft of gouging the market, then it gives them carte blanche to do the very thing they were brought up on trial for.
The government had NO CASE AGAINST MICROSOFT.
The government is Microsoft's biggest customer.
The government can tell you as a subcontractor that you must use Windows?
Fuck them both.
The thing that pisses me off is that they used our taxpayers hard-earned dollars to pursue this sham in the first place.
Give us our money back. :mad: :mad: :mad:
--- End quote ---
Sinewave:
I say MS is made just to give schools money. That way they can spend it on anything they want to.
ChakanTGM:
Machead, taxpayer money is wasted on everything nowadays, you're absolutely right.
Congress should pass a law prohibiting the use of Microsoft's lame ass OS because it contains excessive amounts of pork. We are going to have to switch one day, Microsoft cannot hold thier monopoly forever.
Even if we can't change things now, we can for the future. For the sake of our kids and of our grandkids. We should be using computers to exhibit thier full potential, not to heighten somebody's profit margin.
Dammit, it's about time we stopped all of these idiots from commercializing everything they can squeeze a fuckin buck out of. If you haven't noticed, the Internet is going through the same commercialization process as everything else has. If only the NSF didn't unleash this beast into the hands of these dimwits, without any strings attached. Now, with WindowsXP out there, Microsoft is one step closer to having a monopoly over the Internet. Don't believe it? Well wake up and smell the decaf buddy because the people at Redmond will stop at nothing until the ENTIRE computing industry is under thier control. Dynamic insertion of HTML into others webpages will escalate to IE8 selecting exactly what web pages it wants you to view. Then we would really be seeing what "suddenly everything sucks" truly means. :mad:
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