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MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the must-eat-more-money dept.

razvedchik writes: "As reported in this article in the Portland, OR newspaper, The Oregonian, Microsoft is pressuring 24 school districts in the northwest to agree to their Microsoft School Agreement licensing scheme or undergo an audit in 60 days. Multnomah ESD, which covers the greater Portland area and has around 25,000 computers, has to either decide to accept the license at about $500,000 or undergo the audit which it does not have time to prepare for. Of significant interest is the fact that a significant majority of these schools are experimenting with using Linux. Multnomah ESD has its own thin-client Linux distro called K12LTSP."

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  1. Someone set us up the Open Source! by LordYUK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No!!!
    All your computers are belong to us!

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    This is my sig. Its pathetic.
  2. USA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I HATE THE USA

  3. Re:It's going on at SOME levels of goverment. by t0qer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you really have to nitpick? Does it make you feel smart to nitpick? Why is it every time someone makes a good informative comment some ass has to come along and bitch about the spelling, or the wording. My whole comment was good, to the point, informative and ontopic. You need to get a life my friend.

  4. This is small potatoes by Lucas+Membrane · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Compared to the way that Portland taxpayers got screwed by M$ #2 shareholder, Paul Allen, richest team owner of the NBA. The year we spent around $100 million to build him a new basketball arena, we fired about 100 teachers. So another million bucks and ten more teachers, what's new?

    He told us that he couldn't afford to build his own arena, but he found a way to buy up the land around the arena that we built.

    We get a sorry return on that investment in his sports team. Besides this Windows software, he imports to Portland a frequently disgraceful bunch of athletes to amuse himself. His big acquisition this year was a convicted sex offender. They've had about three with notorious drug problems over the past few years, one found in bed with a 14-year old girl, and many reckless driving problems, including one who flips a Mercedes on the freeway at 100+ MPH and another with a 95 MPH ticket. (There is no place near Portland where that's safe.) Well, his company is a convicted anti-trust violator, so what do you expect, good character? Compassionate marketing? When our kids have role models like that, why bother educating them at all?