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Faust:

quote:that's what they get for screwing over those schools in victoria
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what the?  i was a victorian till two months ago what the hell happened?

licensing "issues" im guessing?

Calum:
well it was a good while ago (probably mid or late nineties) and you know what, i may even hang my head and admit it might not have even been in victoria (may have been SA for all i can remember) does anybody know what the details of this were because i can't get google to tell me?

http://www.cyberknights.com.au/schools.phtml
there's a general article about the microsoft/schools situation but from what i heard microsoft had been taken to court or something and had to make some kind of settlement with some australian schools so they donated a lot of computers with windows 95 on them or something but the licence agreements said that the computers would not be legal for the schools or anybody else to use unless the original operating system was NOT replaced (ie with any other windows OR linux et cetera system).

now that's rright out of the back of my brain so all or none of it may be inaccurate.

Faust:
One more example of Microsoft doing some fucked up stuff.  Still at least its only South Australia not one of the "important states!"  :D

Calum:
i hope somebody comes on here who knows the facts because i don't really know them.

Kintaro:
The XBox is nasty hardware, you get cheap hardware cheap, its Intel based for crist sake.

PC's are like old side valve V8's that are souped up. Macs are like Euro car engines, and AMD are like Jap Cars.

Euro cars are more powerfull then the souped up bombs, and reliable, AMD are really fast, but not quite as reliable.

Intel are the Holden of CPU's (AKA there CRAP)

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