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Faced with increased licensing costs, Robinson said he told Microsoft he would be forced to take machines out of service rather than pay the price hike. "I told them if they forced the issue, I would convert to Linux as fast as I possibly could," he said.
"They didn't take it seriously until I showed them already-completed order forms for setting up 14 Linux computer labs for next year," Robinson said, adding that Microsoft representatives seemed "stunned" by his actions.
Other schools are exploring similar options. "We're actively exploring moving toward open-source software," Carlson said. "We've already talked with Sun about doing some pilot projects with them, and it looks like StarOffice might give us a viable [alternative] to Microsoft Works."
Well good for them
More and more, it's turning out that the greatest threat to Microsoft isn't Linux, and it isn't Apple. The greatest threat to Microsoft is Microsoft themselves. I just
love watching these assholes self-destruct. The very fact that the MS reps were stunned by the thought that the school district would go Linux says it all, concerning the sheer arrogance of these MS people. It
never occurs to them that Winderz and all the rest of their crap isn't the be-all and end-all of high tech. Or that they aren't automatically and universally loved by all. Like the old saying goes: whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
On second thought, these schools should go Linux anyway. Unlike Winderz, created for dummies, by dummies, and designed to keep them perpetually dumb, you can actually learn a thing or two by using Linux. It would be a
better teaching platform as well as being a better working platform.
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Live Free or Die: Linux
Their fundamental design flaws are completely concealed by their superficial design flaws.
[ January 14, 2003: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
