Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III

SymphonicMan writes: "As previously discussed on Slashdot, Microsoft threatened an audit for the 24 largest school districts in the Northwest. Now it appears they may be backing down, according to Steve Duin, the Oregonian columnist who orginally brought this to all of our attention in April. Not only that, he writes that Portland Public Schools is opening 16 Linux computer labs across the districts, at half the cost of a Microsoft-equipped lab. Looks like this might be more than just a PR victory for open source. I'm a senior in one of the districts (Beaverton) included in the audit, and our staff is still going crazy trying to comply. But with districts across Oregon facing major budget shortfalls due to the poor economy, removing the pressure of this audit would be very welcome."

Comments

Re:If Microsoft were smart...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's fun to be a dumbass, isn't it?

Nice...but what about Windows compatibility?

[David_Bloom]

I wonder if those kids could figure out how to save their StarOffice documents in Office format and vice-versa...I'm not sure about Linux in schools (with the big exception of MacOS X)

Re:Bringing Linux to the youth

[News For Turds]

Oh. I couldn't possibly agree more. That's why I can, in all honesty, give you this advice: Let's hear it for all da logged in trolls! Woohoo!

Ok... Say it with me...

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C to da mutha phukken izzzzzzex
HellZ yeah, you know how it is bizznitch

[slashdot.org][slashdot.org]dumbass[slashdot . rg]

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

TROLL!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

GNOME!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

nothing GNU!!!!!

Gimme some Ultra-Moderation!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

There was me, that is Taco, and my three droogs, that is Michael, Cowboy Neil and chrisd. And we sat in the Korova Milk Bar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold milk plus - milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old Ultra-Moderation. One thing I could never stand is to see a filthy old troll posting away the filthy goatse links of his fathers and going Blerp Blerp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten mind. I could never stand to see anyone like that whatever his age might be. But more especially when he was real crapflooder like this one was.

(I bet you moderating morons don't even recognize this. I'm wasting my time here...)

Re:Gimme some Ultra-Moderation!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Whoo hoo, Slashwork Neal.

I've got me glassies pinned to it and I might just smack you in the gulliver you worthless fob of a malcheck now hand over the devochica.

Re:Gimme some Ultra-Moderation!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

And post I would. Where I was taken to, brothers, was like no cine I'd been in before. I was bound up in a straight-jacket and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lidlocks on my eyes so I could not shut them no matter how hard I tried. It seemed a bit crazy to me, but I let them get on with what they wanted to get on with. If I was to be a free young malchick in a fortnight's time, I would put up with much in the meantime, my brothers.

So far the first troll was a very good professional piece of work, looked like it was done by Trollaxor himself.

The moderation was a real horroshow. You could slooshy the screams and moans of the trolls very realistic and you could even get the heavy breathing and panting of the tolchocking moderator malchicks at the same time. And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the karma, negative karma on tap. The same in all places like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow. It was beautiful.

Now all the time I was watching this, I was beginning to get very aware of like not feeling all that well, but I tried to forget this, concentrating on the next moderation, which jumped right away on a young troll devotchka, who was being given the old in-out, in-out, first by one malchick, then another, then another. This seemed real, very real, though if you thought about it properly you couldn't imagine lewdies actually agreeing to having all this done to them on Slashdot, and if these were made by the good, or the Slashdot editors, you couldn't imagine them being allowed to moderate like this, without like interfering with what was going on.

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Eat HURD and Die!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

you should become BOURNE AGAIN!!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

scriptKDE!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Suck my LOG...FILE that is!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

PIPE it into your /dev/null

Re:MOD PARENT UP!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well boys, we got modded down. I just can't keep up anymore, this old troll has been through it all and I'm gonna take on last crapflood and retire. Nothing to see here. Just a sad old troll without a bridge.

Fuck u Timothy

Kewl!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

good news for Linux & bad news for Micky$oft...

yeah!!! go Linux#1 go!!!

Re:Suffer the kids

[Anonymous Coward]

GREP this hot SLED in ur AWK

Re:Think that's bad?

[markmoss]

And you'd be quite surprised just how many "big" stories don't get picked up by the local media.

Not any more. When I was going to school in Stillwater, OK, about 1983, the feds arrested the entire county road commission for taking bribes, along with most of the road commissioners and contractors in the state. The local newspaper printed nothing about it - note that their office is within a block of the county offices, so it would have been hard not to notice the G-men descending on the place. Nor had it printed anything about various other crooked politicians getting caught, as long as they were conservative - or flat out reactionary - Republicans.

The story was big enough nationally that the Doonesbury comic strips were based on it for several weeks. The college newspaper, which usually didn't do any _news_ reporting beyond the football games, decided they had to run a real news article explaining what the hell Doonesbury was about. And then the town newspaper finally decided to start running the stories - dumped unedited from the AP lines.

Re:History

[56ker]

Actually that was because the British had only a few thousand troops on the entire continent. Most of the British Empire was won with foreign troops anyway. How else do you think a country with a few million people would take over Australia, Canada, India etc?

Re:History

[56ker]

How is this off-topic when the parent post is:

During the American Revolutionary war, the British consistantly believed that the colonies were full of loyalist supporters. When they found far fewer loyalists than they hoped for, they hired indians to fight for them. Suddenly, the large number of people in the middle swung over to support ... the rebels. Oops. ???

Re:Funny statistics

[56ker]

I meant the amount of troops they had when war broke out - of course they sent reinforcements from Europe but they took months to get there. That's why they needed to draft extra soldiers from America. Really they were just asking for a war by leaving so few troops there.